Jacob Kushner
The GroundTruth ProjectJournalist covering development economics, inequality, foreign aid & investment, governance, innovation and immigration.
Indigenous tribe watches houses burn and points fingers at the World Bank
A former World Bank official says the bank shut down his efforts to defend rights of tribal group in Kenya.
When Kenya kills: A family's quest for justice
Kenya's anti-terror police are inflicting terror of their own
In Africa, being gay makes you a target for extortion
Guns, knives and rape: The plight of a gay Ethiopian refugee in Kenya
Inside the nightmares of Africa’s LGBT refugees
You’ve heard about Uganda. But all over East Africa, people are fleeing for their lives because of their sexuality.
Anti-LGBT groups are making inroads across East Africa
In Africa, 37 of 54 countries consider homosexual acts criminal.
Five years after the earthquake, Haiti remains on unsteady ground
Foreign aid donors are making progress — and mistakes — but many Haitians say the country's leadership is failing to deliver.
In Tanzania, Coke improves medical distributions
A successful Coca-Cola partnership in Tanzania to better distribute medicine across the country shows that not all public-private partnerships have to be self-serving.
Coca-Cola's river cleanup work in Tanzania shows mixed motives
Coca-Cola is partnering with governments, NGOs, and other companies to improve access to water, occupying a gray area where genuine charity meets corporate profit.
Kenya redefines marriage in a blow to women’s rights
A push by Kenya’s president and male-dominated parliament to overhaul marriage bodes ill for the nation’s wives, socially and economically.
In Kenya, major debate over government wages 'spiraling out of control'
In the nation’s public sector, there are huge disparities between the highest earners and the low. Now, Kenyans are fighting over who should take a cut.
Six months later: Kenya’s Westgate Mall workers reflect on a delicate recovery
Six months after a terrorist attack killed dozens at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, GlobalPost correspondent Jacob Kushner talks with mall workers about their stories of trauma, joblessness and moving on.
Kenya's workers fear for their pensions as the country cries ‘scandal’
A botched investment by Kenya's social security agency may delay workers’ retirement benefits, make a Chinese construction firm richer and leave thousands of small landowners with nothing.
Kenya may be uniquely ripe for advances in gay rights
An increasingly supportive church and other signs suggest Kenya may be departing from its neighbors in the region by accepting homosexuality.