Jocelyne Sambira
Jocelyne Sambira is a UN staff member and writer for Africa Renewal in New York. She previously served in the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan from 2007-2009 as a radio producer. She moved there from Kenya where she had been reporting for the UN humanitarian news agency, IRIN, in the Great Lakes region and Northern Uganda since 2002. Jocelyne began her career as a radio producer in the thick of a civil war in her native Burundi. She holds a Masters in Science in Digital Media from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (2014).
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Influencing policy is ‘not a numbers game’
More women in Africa enter public office, but still wield little power
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Rwanda genocide survivors struggle to rebuild their lives
Genocide can happen anywhere, says Jacqueline Murekatete, a survivor -
‘Take away the guns,’ women tell UN envoy
Reforms needed to stop war-time sex crimes, says Zainab Bangura -
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Reconstructive surgery brings hope to survivors of genital cutting
New advances can give women more normal lives -
New HIV infections are falling dramatically in Africa
People with the disease are also living longer and better -
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Northern Mali’s ‘city of saints’ suffers rebel fury
Destruction of Timbuktu mausoleums is “repugnant,” says UN
