Gerry LoughranGerry Loughran, author and journalist, spent many years in Africa as a foreign correspondent and as a senior executive of the Nation group of newspapers in Nairobi, Kenya. He was chef de bureau for United Press International in Beirut, Paris and Moscw before becoming foreign news editor in New York. Subsequently, he set up and ran Compass News Features, covering the developing world. He currently writes a weekly column in the Sunday Nation. Read More Read Less