Jeff Koinange

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Jeff Koinange is a television reporter, serving as the Africa correspondent for CNN and CNN International since 2001.

[edit] Background

Koinange was born in Kenya and worked with Kenya's first independent television channel KTN Kenya Television Network. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from New York University. Prior to joining CNN, Koinange worked for Reuters Television from 1995 to 2001, covering Africa and serving as their chief producer from 1999 to 2001. He also worked as a producer at NBC News in 1994 and also worked for ABC News earlier in his career from 1991 to 1992.

[edit] CNN Career

Included among the more significant stories Koinange has covered for CNN in Africa were the crisis in Darfur, the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone and the famine in Niger, for which Koinange won an Emmy award.

Most recently, in early 2007, Koinange was reprimanded by the government of Nigeria for his report [1] on rebels in the Niger Delta. In his report, Koinange accompanied masked guerillas to a camp where they were holding a number of Filipino hostages. The Nigerian government said that the report was "staged", a charge CNN denies [2].

Koinange has also covered news outside of Africa, including extensive reporting on the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina crisis as well as the Iraq War.