Still in Morocco. Still in the Newsroom trying to file stories before 6 pm. One down, and another left.
We usually know how these conferences are like: the speeches are so predictable it is not funny; so the challenge comes with how to make the stories jump out at you for the Paper the next day.
My first story about the African Union's African Risk Capacityu made it to the Paper, and I met a fortmer associate of my former workplace who has just found out am now with Radio.
How do you find it? She wondered. I must have said something like I find it liberating. Not quite sure exactly, but it was something close enough.
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