A former presenter of ‘snide Africa’ on CNN, Soni Methu, died suddenly on Thursday.
The 34-year-old Kenyan died after collapsing from pains in her stomach, according to her sister, Faith Methu.
Not in that she died when she was being rushed to the hospital, Faith added, “We don’t know much but a post mortem will be done to tell exactly what happened.”
“We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of our friend and former colleague Soni Methu. Our heartfelt condolences to her family and friends, from all at CNN” CNN said in a statement.
Reports aded that Soni Methu was a reporter at the Chinese-owned news network CGTN at the time of her passing. She was previously the east Africa correspondent at E News Africa for two years, where she covered the Westgate Mall terrorist attack in Nairobi and other incidents in the region. Before that, she was a reporter for South African news channel eNCA.
