Kirimi Kaberia
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Kirimi Kaberia is an African journalist, community organizer and diplomat. He currently resides in Paris, France, where he is deputy ambassador of Kenya to France.
In the 1990s Kirimi Kaberia worked for the BBC in Africa and covered the Somalian war. He later joined the Washington Times and then the Washington Post as a report. Kirimi Kaberia became President of the African Unification Front in 2001. In October 2003 he was appointed Kenya's Deputy Ambassador to the United States of America.
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Kirimi Kaberia is the founder of the US-based Democracy and Governance Program, which has trained over 120 African leaders, including cabinet ministers and members of parliament from across Africa, as well as government and civil society leaders in Africa since 1994.
He was involved with the analysis and drafting of the AGOA project that has become such an important factor in the continuing debate about opening the US market for African products. Kirimi's activities also included the promotion of ODA reforms and fair terms of international trade. In 1998, following the twin terrorist bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Kirimi Kaberia's work with the Relief for Kenya added US$10 million to the fund, raising it to US$60 million.
In the 1990s Kaberia worked for the BBC in Kenya, and did assignments that included covering the war in Somalia. He has worked with the Washington Post and the Washington Times as a staff reporter, and with the Les Aspin Center at Marquette University in Washington DC.
Kaberia has longstanding working relations with the US Congressional Black Caucus, and the US Foreign Relations Committee. Kirimi is also the CEO of ATCnet, the African Trade Consultants Network. He has written widely on Africa and international political economy as it affects Africa, and has been involved in peace efforts across Africa, and has been instrumental in the movement to reform the way that aid agencies operate in Africa.
