Sandra Nyaira

Sandra Nyaira is a Zimbabwean investigative journalist and communications and public information officer at the United Nations headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Nyaira worked for Voice Of America (VOA) in Washington D C and her work also featured in the "London Times, The Guardian" and "The British Journalism Review". Nyaira rose to fame after she became the first woman in Zimbabwe to take a leadershio role in the newsroom at the age of 26 and also became more popular after she got arrested for exposing corrupt officials through an article she published.
In April 2001 she wrote articles accusing Robert Mugabe and the then parliamentary speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa of corruption, and again she was charged with criminal defamation that year.
Nyaira has been a Shorenstein fellow at Harvard University.