Charles Wachira is an African journalist who is the founder and managing editor of Financial Post in Kenya. He began his reporting career at Kenya Television Network

Kenya Television Network

Kenya Television Network is the leading television station in Kenya with its headquarters at the I & M Towers in downtown Nairobi. Its headquarters will change later on in the year as it moves in with its parent company's other subsidiaries at the newly-built Standard Group Centre on Mombasa road...

 doing activism journalism in the early 1990s. His early assignments included coverage of the Somalia crisis of the early 1990s.

Wachira went on to become editor of Society Magazine in Kenya, and worked for the Inter Press Service

Inter Press Service

Inter Press Service is a global news agency. Its main focus is the production of independent news and analysis about events and processes affecting economic, social and political development....

, for NewsAfrica and Africa Today

Africa Today

Africa Today is an academic journal publishing studies on Africa covering a full range of political, economic, and social topics....

 while based in Harare

Harare

Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

, Zimbabwe. Wachira also reports for the Third World Network

Third World Network

The Third World Network is an international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to environment, development and the Third World and North-South issues. It has its international secretariat in Penang, Malaysia...

 and the British based PANOS

Panos

Panos may refer to:* Panagiotis, Panayiotis a Christian name.* Panos — a computer operating system used by some products of Acorn Computers in the 1980s* Panos Institute — a communications agency in the field of development...

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