Eyder Peralta
Eyder Peralta is NPR's East Africa correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya.
He is responsible for covering the region's people, politics, and culture. In a region that vast, that means Peralta has hung out with nomadic herders in northern Kenya, witnessed a historic transfer of power in Angola, ended up in a South Sudanese prison, and covered the twists and turns of Kenya's 2017 presidential elections.
Previously, he covered breaking news for NPR, where he covered everything from natural disasters to the national debates on policing and immigration.
Peralta joined NPR in 2008 as an associate producer. Previously, he worked as a features reporter for the Houston Chronicle and a pop music critic for the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, FL.
Through his journalism career, he has reported from more than a dozen countries and he was part of the NPR teams awarded the George Foster Peabody in 2009 and 2014. His 2016 investigative feature on the death of Philando Castile was honored by the National Association of Black Journalists and the Society for News Design.
Peralta was born amid a civil war in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. His parents fled when he was a kid, and the family settled in Miami. He's a graduate of Florida International University.
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Haiti is now in the sixth week of a fuel blockade by armed gangs in the capital Port-au-Prince. It means that escalating hunger, along with a cholera crisis, is getting more dire by the day.
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Haiti is experiencing high levels of gang violence, crime, poverty and disease that has intensified since last year's assassination of the president.
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Mexico is trying to come to terms with a massive data leak that uncovered some of the country's closest kept secrets — from the health of the president to the corruption among Mexico's military.
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Cuba is still struggling to get to the electrical supply back up after Hurricane Ian knocked out the island's power supply.
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Ongoing demonstrations in Mexico are marking the anniversary of the massacre in 2014 that resulted in the murders and disappearances of 43 students from a college in a rural south-western state.
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Kenya has inaugurated William Ruto as president. The Christian leader has humble roots as a chicken seller.
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For nearly two years, bloody conflict has raged in northern Ethiopia. Is the Tigrayan rebels' offer to take part in cease-fire talks with the Ethiopian government cause for hope?
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Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto wins the country's presidential election in a tightly fought race.
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The elections had been hailed as step forward for Kenyan democracy, with politicians focused on economic issues rather than tribal mobilization. Across Nairobi, scenes of celebration mixed with anger. -
While Kenyans wait for the final results, the electoral commission has done something new this year. It has posted some early results online but that seems to be causing confusion.
