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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Early Monday morning, Israel struck a building in central Beirut for the first time since the conflict started nearly a year ago. Now, there is a military buildup along the border.
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In a dramatic late night session, Mexico's Senate voted on its controversial judicial reform bill. The debate was interrupted when protestors forced their way into the Senate chambers.
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The constitutional reform is controversial because it completely remakes Mexico's judiciary. One side says it will end corruption, the other that it will end judicial independence. -
Despite countrywide protests, Mexico’s controversial judicial reform bill advances through Congress and inches closer towards passing into law.
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All of Mexicos federal judiciary has gone on strike to protest a massive reform that they say would put an end to the country's checks and balances.
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After a decades long man hunt the defacto head of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel is arrested just outside El Paso. What more do we know about his capture and what impact, if any, will this have on the fentanyl crisis here.
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The first contingent of Kenyan police officers arrive in Haiti after months of delays. The multinational force is there to curb gangs that have taken over most of the Haitian capital to bring order.
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Mexico has made history. For the first time since it became a republic more than 200 years ago, Mexicans have elected a woman president.
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History is made: Claudia Sheinbaum has won Mexico's election by a landslide to become its first female president.
