By Yonatan Pomrenze, NBC News Producer
NAIROBI, Kenya – Anena Hansen, a 32-year-old writer from New Hampshire, first came to Kenya last year for what was supposed to be a two-week volunteering stint just outside Nairobi. But she found the work she was doing with HIV-positive women so rewarding – she stayed.
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Pakistan’s growing olive industry stymied by security
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By Amna Nawaz, NBC News Producer
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – I came to Pakistan for the olives. I am on a fellowship from the International Reporting Project, and I am working on a story about an agricultural development project launching an olive oil business here. Pakistan is not in a region normally associated with olives. The Mediterranean [...]
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