Martin Mwangi
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BBC,
Nature,
BMJ Open,
Biomed Central (BMC),
us.blastingnews.com,
The Lancet,
Daily Nation,
Kenya Television Network,
The Standard (Kenya),
Business Daily Africa,
The Revelator
and
Covers:
Current Affairs, Politics, Governance, Environment, Social Justice, Health and Crime.
Analyst @BBCMonitoring. Tracking politics, conflicts, security, armed groups, jihadists & coups in Francophone Africa | @AKU_GSMC fellow| @AfCFTA Youth Champion
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Martin Mwangi’s Biography
Read Full Bio →I am a journalist with BBC Monitoring, based in Nairobi, Kenya, where I cover political, security, and media developments across sub-Saharan and Francophone Africa. My reporting focuses on security, armed groups, jihadists, militants, governance and regional dynamics, tracking how local events shape broader narratives across the continent.
Fluent in English, Swahili and French, I monitor and analyse open-source media ranging from television and radio to newspapers and social platforms, to ident…
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Television Production Attaché
Have you ever used a typewriter?
No
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