David McGuffin is the Africa Correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, reporting for its television, radio and online news services. In 2004 McGuffin re-opened CBC's bureau in Africa. Since that time, from his base in Nairobi, Kenya, he has re-asserted CBC's presence on the continent, regularly reporting from conflict zones in Darfur, Congo, Somalia and Afghanistan. He has also covered a wide range of social, economic, and cultural issues affecting Africa, traveling from Timbuktu to Mogadishu, Khartoum to Cape Town. In his work he has interviewed former South African President Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Desmond Tutu, rebel leaders and more than a few indicted war criminals. He was previously the bureau chief in Moscow for Feature Story News, a British broadcast news agency, during the last tumultuous years of the Yeltsin era. His reports from all over the former Soviet Union aired on National Public Radio, CBC News, ABC Radio News and US Public Television. In 2000, he opened FSN's Beijing FSN bureau, before joining CTV News as its Beijing bureau chief and Asia correspondent. During a two year stint in Rome, he also reported for ABC News and NBC News, on Vatican and European affairs. His reports aired on NBC Nightly News, MSNBC and ABC Radio. His first job in journalism was for the MacNeil–Lehrer Newshour on American PBS. He was part of the team that launched the NewsHour's award winning website and served as the Online NewsHour's Foreign Editor. He graduated from Trent University, the journalism program at the University of King's College and Lisgar Collegiate Institute.