Monthly Archives: October 2018

October/November – the Guardian, the Irish Times, BBC, Frontline Club Awards, Irish Journalism Awards, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the National, RTE, Spiegel Online, Al Jazeera, CNN International (selected)

‘Nearly 80 rescued migrants forced off cargo ship in Libya’, CNN International, Nov 20, 2018 (Twitter thread on what happened, read by 50,000+)

‘Barricaded refugees “ready to die” than return to Libya detention’, Al Jazeera, Nov 19, 2018 (referenced by BBC and NPR)

Irish Times foreign corDelighted to win ‘foreign coverage of the year’ for my reporting from Sudan, Syria and northeast Nigeria, at the Irish Journalism Awards, Nov 15, 2018

‘Desperation builds in Libyan migrant centres’, the Irish Times, Nov 14, 2018

I was a guest on the UN Dispatch podcast, talking about the situation for migrants and refugees in Libyan detention, Nov 13, 2018 (was also interviewed on ZDF Heute about the situation)

‘Inside Libyan detention “hell” where refugee burned himself alive’, Al Jazeera, Nov 11, 2018

Interviewed by Spiegel Online about Libya, Nov 10, 2018 (and another article in Focus, Nov 13, 2018)

Radio report about the suicide of a Somali man in a Libyan detention centre, RTE World Report, Nov 4, 2018 (from 12 mins in. Script here)

‘A precarious haven: Africa’s LGBT+ refugees teeter on the brink in Kenya’, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Oct 31, 2018 (also in Kenya’s The Star)

BK9B3292LGBT refugees in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. Pictured October, 2018

‘Somali returned to Libya under Italian policy sets himself on fire’, the Irish Times, Oct 25, 2018

‘”He died two times”: African migrants face death in Libyan detention centres’, the National, Oct 25, 2018

‘Low-tech provides powerful tool to fight land corruption – experts’, the Thomson Reuters Foundation/Place, Oct 23, 2018

Delighted to be up for three Irish Journalism Awards – foreign coverage, features and young journalist of the year.

On BBC’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ talking about my contacts with refugees and migrants detained in Libya, Radio 4, Oct 11, 2018 (also on World Service)

BK9B3265Picture taken while reporting in Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, October 2018

My photo with this piece on conscription in Eritrea, the Guardian, Oct 11, 2018

So nice to be shortlisted for the Frontline Club Awards.

‘Migrant deaths in the Mediterranean reach record percentage’, the Irish Times, Oct 4, 2018

‘Libya is a war zone. Why is the EU still sending refugees back there?’ the Guardian, Oct 4, 2018