Sandra Nyaira

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Sandra Nyaira
Born
Zimbabwe
Died(2021-07-13)July 13, 2021
NationalityZimbabwean
Occupation(s)Reporter, Journalist

Sandra Nyaira was a Zimbabwean investigative journalist. [1] Communications and public information officer at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [2] Nyaira worked for Voice Of America (VOA) [3] in Washington, DC. Her work was also featured in the London Times , The Guardian and The British Journalism Review. [4] Nyaira rose to fame after she became the first woman in Zimbabwe to take a leadership role in the newsroom at the age of 26 [5] and also became more popular after she was arrested for posting an article exposing corrupt officials. [6]

In April 2001, she wrote articles accusing Robert Mugabe and the then parliamentary speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa of corruption, and again, she was charged with criminal defamation that year. [7] [8]

Nyaira has been a Shorenstein fellow at Harvard University. [1]

On 13 July 2021, it was reported that Nyaira had died of a COVID-19-related illness. [9]

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