# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sandra-nyaira
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:06:28.673Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sandra-nyaira"
name: "Sandra Nyaira"
slug: "sandra-nyaira"
description: "Sandra Nyaira was a Zimbabwean investigative journalist. Communications and public information officer at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Nyaira worked for Voice Of America (VOA) in Washington, DC. Her work was also featured in the London Times, The Guardian and The British Journalism Review. Nyaira rose to fame after she became the first woman in Zimbabwe to take a leadership role in the newsroom at the age of 26 and also became more popular after she was arrested for posting an article exposing corrupt officials."
tagline: "Zimbabwean journalist"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1974-08-13"
deathDate: "2021-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           30.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.067566666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Nyaira"
    title: "Sandra Nyaira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Nyaira"
    title: "Sandra Nyaira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Nyaira"
    title: "Sandra Nyaira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sandra_Nyaira"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Nyaira"
    title: "Sandra Nyaira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sandra_Nyaira"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54932411"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump