David McGuffin - Letters from Africa
David McGuffin is the CBC's Africa correspondent, based in Nairobi. Previously, he was bureau chief in Moscow for Feature Story News (FSN), a British broadcast news service with clients that include CBC Radio, National Public Radio, PBS and ABC News. He reported from across the former Soviet Union during the last turbulent years of the Yeltsin administration. He went on to open FSN's Beijing bureau in 2000 before joining CTV News as their Asia correspondent. He also spent two years in Rome, reporting on Vatican and European affairs for ABC News and NBC News. He got his start in journalism at PBS’s MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour in Washington, D.C., where his last job was as foreign editor of the show's award-winning website. An Ottawa native, he graduated from Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., and from the journalism program at the University of King's College in Halifax.
FEATURE COLUMN:
October 19, 2006
The bizarre challenges of getting a visa for Sudan
"This was one of my more extraordinary moments in getting the visas and other documents needed to travel in the world's far-flung places. It ranks up there with an episode during my time in Beijing. I got a phone call at midnight on a Friday from a diplomat at the North Korean Embassy. … 'Come to the embassy at six a.m.,' the diplomat told me. 'Six in the morning? Are you serious?' I asked. 'I am perfectly serious,' he replied."
COLUMNS BY DAVID MCGUFFIN:
October 3, 2006
Battling police brutality and obstructive governments in Sudan
September 28, 2006
Teaching Canadian police tactics in Darfur
September 25, 2006
Coming to Darfur's aid
September 8, 2006
Is this the end for Sudan's regime?
April 20, 2006
Somalia's drought: 'Children are dying. Everything is dying'
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