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E-mail Shashank Bengali at sbengali@mcclatchydc.com
Shashank Bengali is based in Nairobi, Kenya, and writes about sub-Saharan Africa. He has reported for McClatchy from more than 25 countries and covered conflicts in Somalia, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq and Georgia. Before moving to Africa in 2005, he was a roving correspondent for The Kansas City Star. Originally from the Los Angeles area, Shashank studied at the University of Southern California and at Harvard University, where he earned a Master's degree in public policy. He speaks French and broken Kiswahili.
Read his blog, Somewhere in Africa.
Shashank Bengali's Latest Story
Pirates: Yo, ho, ho and a million-dollar McMansion
By Shashank Bengali | McClatchy Newspapers
Rather than investing in their wrecked Somali homeland, pirates are laundering huge sums through property, hotels, shopping arcades and trucking companies in Kenya, according to family members, real estate brokers, money traders and pirates themselves. » read more
Posted on Fri, May 22, 2009
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