Celebrating Zain Verjee, Kenya born CNN World News Anchor
1Interesting coverage/celebration… of Zain Verjee in Daily Nation. Some excerpts…
…In person, Zain is much slimmer than the image beamed into living rooms across the world from CNN’s London bureau where she is currently based…
A typical working day for her begins at 3 a.m. and by 11 a.m. “when you’re having your morning tea” she is wrapping up. Prior to this assignment, she was based in Washington DC, where she presented the news for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. She also covered the US State Department for CNN for two years and travelled with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to more than a dozen countries, including Israel, Turkey, Libya, Russia and South Korea. This assignment, she says, gave her a chance to see how diplomacy works.
“Then she was Secretary Rice, now she’s Condi,” she says of her relationship with the former US Secretary of State. This aside, Zain has interviewed international world leaders such as Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on her return from exile. She also travelled back to Pakistan in December 2007 to cover the ramifications of Bhutto’s assassination.
The previous year, she reported from the Demilitarised Zone in Korea, and in September of the same year had an exclusive interview with former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami.
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