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Shashank Bengali

Shashank Bengali

Africa

E-mail Shashank Bengali at sbengali@mcclatchydc.com

Shashank Bengali, the Washington Bureau's Africa correspondent, is based in Nairobi, Kenya, and covers sub-Saharan Africa. Previously he was roving state correspondent for The Kansas City Star, where he wrote on a variety of subjects including Missouri state government, courts and the environment.

From 2003 to 2005 he earned a Master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, focusing on international human rights policy. Originally from the Los Angeles area, Shashank holds Bachelor’s degrees in journalism, political science and French from the University of Southern California, and was a 1997 Knight Ridder Minority Journalism Scholar. He reported for Knight Ridder from China in the summer of 2004 and took over the Nairobi bureau in August 2005.

Read his blog, Somewhere in Africa.

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Hungry and fearful, Zimbabweans flooding South Africa

By Shashank Bengali | McClatchy Newspapers

For those desperate souls who would sneak across this frontier, consider the obstacles: Armed bandits. A river, low this time of year but still populated by crocodiles and man-mauling hippos. Multiple rows of fences watched by zealous border guards. And all along the goal is to enter a country that's dangerously hostile to immigrants. Yet to escape President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, the risks increasingly appear to be worth taking. » read more

Posted on Fri, July 18, 2008

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