Stories by Tristan McConnell

Tristan McConnell, a journalist based in Nairobi, covers east and Horn of Africa as a correspondent for the Times of London and GlobalPost. subscribe to Tristan McConnell's feed

North-South Tensions Roiling Sudan

Posted on: Dec 22, 2010, Source: The Nation

The religious, ethnic and cultural differences that cut through Sudan are exacerbated by the legacy of weapons and brutality from decades of war. And then there is the oil.

Rwandan President Tries To Maintain Moral Authority In Light of UN Report Implicating His Regime In Congo Genocide

Posted on: Sep 24, 2010, Source: The Nation

In an account in the report, women and men were separated one evening in an eastern Congo mountain town. All were executed, every man beaten to death with hammers.