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A selection of pieces for newspaper, online and magazines. In addition to my reporting work, I have worked as a researcher and analyst on issues including conflict, sexual violence and urban poverty. I have also written on energy, mining, telecommunications, the media, infrastructure and the financial sector as a market analyst in emerging economies.

2018

Letter from Harare: Soldiers raced through streets of Harare appearing to fire randomly into crowds, Evening Standard, 1 August 2018
Letter from Harare: Old Uncle Bob shows he still has the power to grab headlines, Evening Standard, 31 July 2018
Malaria vaccine pilot steers past final delays, Financial Times, 17 April 2018
Zimbabwe and Kenya lead the way in Africa's dash from cash, The Guardian, 22 February 2018
Ethiopian prime minister quits in sign of leadership split, Financial Times, 15 February 2018

2017

Letter from Harare: We finally got our country back, says crowd dancing in the streets, Evening Standard, 22 November 2017
Letter from Harare: Zimbabwe's false dawn turns to tears then fury, Evening Standard, 20 November 2017
Defiant Robert Mugabe faces impeachment as the deadline for tyrant leader to resign passes, Evening Standard, 20 November 2017
Gunshots, tear gas and water cannon as Kenyans vote again, Evening Standard, 26 October 2017
Letter from Nairobi: Contest haunted by 2007 vote, Evening Standard, 9 August 2017

Project Zero for the Huffington Post (as editor or co-reporter/photographer/videographer):
In Rural Kenya, Escaping A Deadly Disease Sometimes Takes A Little Luck – my images, words, video, 6 September 2017
How This Woman’s Eyelashes Nearly Blinded Her – my images; words by Hannah McNeish, 22 June 2017
This Woman Lived In A Cave Without Health Care While A Parasite Ate At Her Face – my images; words by Hannah McNeish, 23 May 2017
When Getting Health Care Means Hiking Through A Leopard’s Hunting Ground – my images; words by Hannah McNeish, 19 May 2017
Why People With A Treatable Flesh-Eating Disease Don’t Want The Cure – my images and video; words with Hannah McNeish, 19 May 2017
This Woman Survived One Of The Deadliest Snake Attacks – my images; words by Hannah McNeish, 18 May 2017
A Heartbreaking Look At Leprosy In 2017 – words by Sara Perria, 26 April 2017

Other outlets:

Individual Leaders with an International Voice, German Marshall Fund of the United States, 30 June 2017 (blogging as a Spring 2017 Marshall Memorial Fellow)

2016

Democracy, forests and finance: the tech making Africa a better place, The Guardian, 11 August 2016
Africa calling: mobile phone revolution to transform democracies, The Guardian, 8 August 2016
From Nollywood to Shujaaz: how the internet is shaking up African entertainment, The Guardian, 6 August 2016
The web startups looking to cash in on 1 billion African consumers, The Guardian, 4 August 2016
Could bitcoin change the game in Africa?, The Guardian, 3 August 2016
From killing machines to agents of hope: the future of drones in Africa, The Guardian, 27 July 2016
Africa's top 10 tech pioneers: 'We have become an internet-consuming culture', The Guardian, 25 July 2016
Can the internet reboot Africa?, The Guardian, 25 July 2016
Teaching slum girls and female refugees to believe in themselves, BBC, 17 June 2016
'I want to train more water warriors', BBC, 20 May 2016
Solving delivery problems in a gridlocked city, BBC, 3 May 2016
Somaliland faces ‘explosion’ of mental health conditions, The Guardian, 22 January 2016

2015

Changing Kenya's education by phone, BBC, 3 November 2015
“In Somaliland, there is very little knowledge about mental illness”, Al Jazeera English, 29 October 2015
The 7,000-mile trip Britain's stolen cars are now taking... all the way to Uganda, The Independent, 5 September 2015
Barack Obama in Kenya: US President tells young people to build a future in Africa, The Independent, 26 July 2015
Kenya's Joy As Obama Visits Father's Homeland, Sky News, 25 July 2015
Refugee: Escaping Burundi's political violence, Al Jazeera English, 23 June 2015
Hundreds of lone Burundian children flee to Rwanda, The Guardian, 10 June 2015

2014

'I was looking at his face. He looked at me and he fired': Westgate victim describes terror attack that killed his wife, The Daily Telegraph, 21 September 2014
Kenya: mothers and children scratch a living on Eldoret dump, The Guardian, 1 September 2014
US doctor working in Liberia contracts ebola, The Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2014
Ebola claims first victim in Africa's largest city, The Daily Telegraph, 26 July 2014
Britain extends travel warning on Kenyan coast to include Lamu, The Daily Telegraph, 12 July 2014
Kenyan president blames 'local political networks' for coastal attacks, The Guardian, 17 June 2014
Kenya is a war zone, warns al-Shabaab after Somali Islamists massacre 48, The Guardian, 16 June 2014
Poachers kill one of the world's largest elephants in Kenya, The Sunday Telegraph, 14 June 2014
Kenya couple deny murder in FGM case, The Guardian, 4 June 2014
Teaching Difficult Histories: Rwanda's Post-Genocide Experience, National Geographic, 29 April 2014

2013

Abdul Haji: 'The thought that I might die at Westgate mall never crossed my mind', The Observer, 8 December 2013
Mandela: A statesman who built a nation on the platform of his character, Christian Science Monitor, 5 December 2013
Kenya mall attack: Mother who negotiated with terrorist to spare children tells of ordeal, The Sunday Telegraph, 6 October 2013
Nairobi mall attack: American family in emotional reunion with rescue hero Abdul Haji, The Daily Telegraph, 30 September 2013
Kenya terror attack: the infighting and chaos that allowed deadly siege to drag on, The Sunday Telegraph, 29 September 2013
Somalia to receive €1.8bn from donors under three-year reconstruction plan, The Guardian, 17 September 2013
Analysis: Barclays to cut Somalia's remittance "lifeline", IRIN, 4 July 2013
Barclays set to exit Somali remittance business, FT's This is Africa, 4 July 2013
The Bitter Taste of Biofuels, Think. Magazine, 16 June 2013
Woolwich attack: UK 'took fears over suspected killer lightly', The Sunday Telegraph, 26 May 2013
Woolwich attack: soldier's 'killer' in dock on terror link three years ago, The Sunday Telegraph, 26 May 2013
Britain 'should apologise for colonial injustices' says Kenyan commission, The Daily Telegraph, 22 May 2013
Analysis: Somali security sector reform, IRIN, 13 May 2013
'The future of Somalia is at stake', says president, The Sunday Telegraph, 5 May 2013
Kenya's Supreme Court upholds Uhuru Kenyatta's election win, The Sunday Telegraph, 31 March 2013
Kenya's Raila Odinga lodges legal challenge to election result, The Daily Telegraph, 16 March 2013
Kenya election: Kenyatta declared victor as Odinga vows to appeal, The Sunday Telegraph, 10 March 2013
Uhuru Kenyatta looks to have won Kenyan election with slimmest of margins, The Daily Telegraph, 9 March 2013
Land holds key to Kenyan rivalries, Al Jazeera English, 4 March 2013
Kenya's slum dwellers fear violence as voting in presidential election to begin, The Sunday Telegraph, 3 March 2013
Alleged gang rape and suppression of press freedom in Somalia, New Statesman, 1 February 2013
Suffer the Children, Think. Magazine, January 2013
Military drones to be thrown into fight to save Africa's White Rhinos, The Sunday Telegraph, 6 January 2013

Pre-2013

Profile on journalisted.com, for a comprehensive list of news reporting for UK media.

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