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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The leader admonished Ugandans for exercising outside during the pandemic rather than indoors — and promised to release a video tutorial. He did it on Thursday, to the delight of many in the country.
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Zimbabwe's economy and health care system collapsed long before the coronavirus hit. The current lockdown has dealt the country yet one more blow.
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As the coronavirus spreads, there is growing public concern over some of the methods being used by governments to enforce containment methods.
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The politician and artist has some helpful, and optimistic, advice for anyone left wondering what to do.
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As more cases of the coronavirus are being reported in Africa, concern is growing about the continent's woefully unprepared health care systems.
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We've heard a great deal about the experience of the coronavirus pandemic in China and Europe but how is it impacting other countries? We check in with our reporters in Pakistan, Kenya and Mexico.
