Jason Straziuso

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In this photo taken Wednesday, March 26, 2014, Emmanuel Ndayisaba, right, and Alice Mukarurinda, pose for a photograph outside Alice's house in Nyamata, Rwanda. She lost her baby daughter and her right hand to a manic killing spree. He wielded the machete that took both. Yet today, despite coming from opposite sides of an unspeakable shared past, Alice Mukarurinda and Emmanuel Ndayisaba are friends. She is the treasurer and he the vice president of a group that builds simple brick houses for genocide survivors. They live near each other and shop at the same market. Their story of ethnic violence, extreme guilt and, to some degree, reconciliation is the story of Rwanda today, 20 years after its Hutu majority killed more than 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The Rwandan government is still accused by human rights groups of holding an iron grip on power, stifling dissent and killing political opponents. But even critics give President Paul Kagame credit for leading the country toward a peace that seemed all but impossible two decades ago. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Rwanda genocide: Man and victim now friends

Jason Straziuso · April 6, 2014 2:45 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday Oct. 29, 2013 file photo, Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, an influential member of a controversial mosque where two previous mosque leaders were killed under mysterious circumstances, sits in his office in Mombasa, Kenya. Writing in Arabic on Islam flag reads: "There is no God but God and Muhammed is his messenger". The lawyer for radical Islamic leader Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, who had been sanctioned by the United States and the United Nations for supporting the al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab, says his client has been assassinated Tuesday, April 1, 2014 along with another man whose identity has not yet been established, near the Shimo la Tewa prison in Mombasa, Kenya. (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso, File)

‘Living on borrowed time,’ said Kenyan Muslim

Jason Straziuso · April 2, 2014 2:57 pm

20 years: Rwanda genocide flame stirs memories

Jason Straziuso · March 28, 2014 8:42 am

Cartel inside Kenya fueling rhino, poaching deaths

Jason Straziuso · March 19, 2014 11:32 am

Skeletons uncovered in mass graves in Somalia

Jason Straziuso · March 6, 2014 12:34 pm

Somaliland leaders want female genitals to be cut

Jason Straziuso · March 1, 2014 10:03 am

FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2009 file photo, crew members work aboard the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama after the ship docked in the harbour of Mombasa, in Kenya. Police in the Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles said Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 that two American security officers were found dead Tuesday in a cabin on the Maersk Alabama, the ship hijacked by pirates in 2009, an event dramatized in the movie "Captain Phillips" starring Tom Hanks. (AP Photo, File)

2 US security officers found dead in Seychelles

Jason Straziuso · February 19, 2014 8:11 pm

A photojournalist wears a tee-shirt showing the face of detained Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste at a demonstration by Kenyan and Nairobi-based foreign media calling for the release of Greste and his colleagues, outside the Egyptian embassy in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Nairobi-based correspondent Greste was taken into custody in Egypt on Dec. 29 and is among 20 journalists working for Al-Jazeera, including four foreigners, who will face trial there on charges of joining or aiding a terrorist group and endangering national security - an escalation that raised fears of a crackdown on freedom of the press. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya: Journalists protest jailings in Egypt

Jason Straziuso · February 4, 2014 4:40 pm

Kenya Airways: New planes, terminal and US flights

Jason Straziuso · January 26, 2014 11:09 am

Ethnic Somalis Liban Abdullah Omar, center, and Mohamed Ahmed Abdi, center-right, who are accused of aiding the Westgate Mall gunmen, are escorted by police around the mall in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. Court officials and four handcuffed ethnic Somalis accused of aiding the gunmen who attacked Nairobi's Westgate Mall in Sept. 2013, walked through the heavily damaged shopping center on Tuesday led by Chief Magistrate Daniel Ochenja, to help the court visualize the mall's layout for the ongoing trial of the four men. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

4 suspects in Nairobi attack tour damaged mall

Jason Straziuso · January 21, 2014 4:15 pm

‘Incredible increase’ in oil, gas in East Africa

Jason Straziuso · June 21, 2013 2:13 pm

Mau-Mau veteran Mathenge Iregi, 81, waves a a ceremonial whisk to celebrate as he and others await a press conference about an announcement regarding their legal case for compensation against the British Government, in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, June 6, 2013. The British government is set to announce compensation for Kenyans abused during a rebellion against colonial rule in the 1950s. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenyan joy: Britain ‘regrets’ colonial abuse

Gregory Katz, Jason Straziuso · June 6, 2013 4:00 am