Murithi Mutiga is Project Director for the Horn of Africa at the International Crisis Group, a conflict prevention research organisation. Before taking that role, Murithi was for seven years an editor and reporter for the Sunday Nation, East Africa’s biggest newspaper. He also covered the Horn of Africa for the Guardian (UK) and was a Contributing Op/Ed Writer for the International New York Times. He holds an MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics.