Eyder Peralta
Eyder Peralta is NPR's East Africa correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya.
He is responsible for covering the region's people, politics, and culture. In a region that vast, that means Peralta has hung out with nomadic herders in northern Kenya, witnessed a historic transfer of power in Angola, ended up in a South Sudanese prison, and covered the twists and turns of Kenya's 2017 presidential elections.
Previously, he covered breaking news for NPR, where he covered everything from natural disasters to the national debates on policing and immigration.
Peralta joined NPR in 2008 as an associate producer. Previously, he worked as a features reporter for the Houston Chronicle and a pop music critic for the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, FL.
Through his journalism career, he has reported from more than a dozen countries and he was part of the NPR teams awarded the George Foster Peabody in 2009 and 2014. His 2016 investigative feature on the death of Philando Castile was honored by the National Association of Black Journalists and the Society for News Design.
Peralta was born amid a civil war in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. His parents fled when he was a kid, and the family settled in Miami. He's a graduate of Florida International University.
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There's been an apparent coup in Sudan. The military has seized power, dissolved the government and arrested the prime minister. Two years ago, a revolution ousted longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
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Fighting between government forces and Tigrayan rebels is escalating in Ethiopia's north. The government is bombing targets in the rebel capital and there's a bloody battle over two strategic towns.
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In Ethiopia, old ethnic tensions are being incited in new ways. And that means the bloody civil war may be entering an even more destructive phase. -
The Ethiopian government says it has launched a new offensive in the north against Tigrayan rebels.
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The government of Ethiopia is launching a new offensive to retake the Tigray region from separatist forces. The United Nations says the relief aid crisis is worsening there.
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Former South African President Jacob Zuma is still at the center of the country's politics, even though he faces a corruption trial. His popularity is indicative of the country's racial polarization.
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A Rwandan court has sentenced Paul Rusesabagina, the man who inspired Hotel Rwanda, to 25 years in prison for terror-related charges.
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French forces killed the leader of the West African ISIS affiliate in a drone strike in southern Mali in August. French authorities described Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi as "enemy No. 1" in the region.
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The South African government is trying to discourage the use of ivermectin, an anti-parasitic medication, as an anti-COVID-19 therapeutic. But some doctors are prescribing it anyway.
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South Africa, after initial struggles to obtain sufficient vaccine for its population, is finally administering the COVID-19 vaccine to hundreds of thousands of citizens.
