Interviewed on the Popular Front podcast about the situation for refugees in Libya, October 23, 2019

‘Vulnerable child and women refugees refused evacuation from Libya’, Al Jazeera, October 22, 2019

Nominated for best ‘foreign coverage’ at the Newsbrands Irish Journalism Awards, October 22, 2019.

On ‘World Report’ speaking about interviewing a child ADF escapee in the DR Congo, RTE Radio One, October 13, 2019

Spoke at a panel on whistleblower protection at Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival, Washington DC, October 11, 2019

‘The U.N. Is Leaving Migrants to Die in Libya’, Foreign Policy, October 10, 2019 (also on Foreign Policy’s ‘First Person’ podcast. One of Foreign Policy’s five best longreads of 2019)

On BBC’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’, talking about spending time with Bobi Wine, Radio 4, October 10, 2019 (also on World Service)

‘Popstar Bobi Wine escapes house arrest in daring motorbike stunt’, CNN International, October 9, 2019

A press conference in Kampala with opposition politician/musician Bobi Wine, on October 1, 2019.

Interviewed for this exhibition in the Pompidou Centre, which is running from October 2019 to February 2020.

Announced as one of this fall’s Logan nonfiction fellows at the Carey Institute for Global Good.

Named a finalist in the Kurt Schork Memorial Awards for International Journalism, 2019.

Bobi Bobi Wine, aka Robert Kyagulanyi, addresses crowds at a rally in Hoima, western Uganda, on September 24, 2019. More photos here.

‘”Maybe they can forget us there”: Refugees in Libya await move to Rwanda’, the Irish Times, Sept 17, 2019

‘Guards accused of rape and torture of migrants arrested in Italy’, the Irish Times, Sept 16, 2019

Mentioned in the Trinity alumni magazine, autumn issue.

‘”White saviourism” under scrutiny after child deaths in Uganda’, the Irish Times, June 29, 2019

‘”If you pay, you’ll go”: Dadaab residents claim bribery is price of getting home’, the Guardian, June 28, 2019

‘Deaths pile up in Libyan detention centre, leaked UN report shows’, the Irish Times, June 25, 2019

‘The economic impact of Ebola’, BBC’s World Business Report, June 24, 2019 (interview)

‘How misinformation is making it almost impossible to contain the Ebola outbreak in DRC’, TIME, June 20, 2019

‘City of Goma braces itself for Ebola outbreak’, the Irish Times, June 20, 2019

‘Inside the battle to save Congo from the Ebola crisis’, TIME, June 19, 2019 (recommended in Foreign Policy’s ‘Morning Brief’)

Belinda Landu, 28, takes off her protective gear after decontaminating the house of a pastor who’s just tested positive for Ebola

Helped with this report on migrant detention in Libya for ITV News, June 11, 2019

Helped with this report on the conditions in Zintan detention centre for Channel 4 News, June 7, 2019

‘”We need urgent help”: Refugees perish in Libyan detention centre’, Al Jazeera, June 7, 2019 (referenced by Open Migration)

Speaking at the Mobile Journalism Festival in Galway about refugees in Libyan detention centres using phones to send information.

‘Call for prosecution of EU over migrant deaths in the Mediterranean’, the Irish Times, June 5, 2019

An article about the background to our 2017 investigation into refugees being arrested/tortured after going back to Syria is the cover story in this quarter’s Investigative Reporters and Editors Journal. Available to members here.

Ranked 16th most influential journalist on Twitter in Ireland.

‘Germany follows UK in suspending refugee aid to Uganda’, the Irish Times, May 29, 2019

‘War-torn Libya’s evacuees fret about those left behind’, the Irish Times, May 21, 2019

‘Poverty, corruption and fake news to the fore as Malawi gears up for elections’, the Irish Times, May 17, 2019

‘Sudan civilian protests to continue after talks with military council collapse’, the Irish Times, May 16, 2019

‘Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo out of control, say aid workers’, the Irish Times, May 15, 2019

‘Revealed: human rights abuses in Libyan migrant camps’, Channel 4 News, May 10, 2019

‘Migrants in line of fire as battle to take Tripoli rages on’, the Irish Times, May 8, 2019

‘TORTYR PÅ ENTREPRENAD’, Re:public, May 8, 2019

‘Fortress Europe: what happens to the refugees sent back to Libya?’, Today in Focus podcast, the Guardian, May 8, 2019 (Wednesday briefing)

‘As Tripoli conflict continues, detained migrants run out of food’, Al Jazeera, May 2, 2019 (also in Bosnian)

Radio piece from the UN General Assembly in New York, RTE World Report, Sept 30, 2018

‘Refugees detained in Libya are drinking toilet water to survive’, The National, Sept 27, 2018

My photo from a hospital in Maryland, Liberia, was used in this CNBC report, Sept 26, 2018

Spoke about the situation for refugees in Libya on Al Jazeera’s ‘The Stream’, Sept 20, 2018

Named as a finalist in the international freelance category of the Kurt Schork Memorial Awards, 2018

Collecting first prize, print, in the Migration Media Awards in Tunis, Sept 18, 2018

My photo from a hospital in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, was used in this US News & World Report piece, Sept 18, 2018

Latest From Our Own Correspondent talking about how my motorbike driver said he used to be ex-LRA commander Dominic Ongwen’s babysitter, BBC Radio Four, Sept 15, 2018

My photo from Liberia’s Tuberculosis Annex was in the Observer, Sept 15, 2018

‘”Live free or die trying on the sea”: Limbo in Libya for unregistered refugees’, the Irish Times, Sept 12, 2018

I was interviewed by the American News Media Alliance, who have named me a ‘2018 Rising Star’. Sept 9, 2018

‘Libyen: “Wir sind keine Tiere”‘, ZEIT Online, Sept 6, 2018

I was on BBC’s Newsday talking about the migrants I’m in touch with in Libya. BBC World Service, Sept 6, 2018

‘Refugees and migrants scatter across Libya as conflict escalates’, the Irish Times, Sept 5, 2018 (I was also on the Irish Times World View podcast)

I had an article in the relaunched New Internationalist about Uganda shutting down orphanages, September issue.

Nice to find out we won first prize in the European Migration Media Awards for this story about Syrian refugee returns.

I was on BBC Newshour – from 34 minutes in – talking about the situation for refugees and migrants abandoned during fighting in Libya. BBC, Aug 31, 2018 (I was also on BBC World TV)

‘Migrants in Libya detention centre say their lives are in peril’, Irish Times, Aug 28, 2018 (this report was referenced in UNHCR’s update to its policy, in which they said Libya is no longer a safe country for returns)

My tweets about the situation for Libyan migrants after fighting broke out in Tripoli were seen more than 2.5 million times. (Mentioned by SBS, Open Migration, Telepolis)

My reporting on Syrian refugees returning home was mentioned on BBC Newshour, Aug 17, 2018

‘Kidnapped as children, they escaped from Kony’s LRA to be reunited with their families in Uganda’, the Washington Post, Aug 13, 2018

Owong Sam, abducted by the LRA aged nine, is reunited with his mother in northern Uganda after sixteen years apart.

Radio report about visiting a Gambian village where a 2016 witch hunt took place, RTE World Report, Aug 5, 2018 (programme from 11.30)

A photo from Kamfenda, in Gambia’s Foni region, the site of a 2016 witch hunt ordered by ex-president Yahya Jammeh.

I was interviewed by Women in Foreign Policy.

‘As high seas threaten Liberian slum, residents await promised homes’, the Thomson Reuters Foundation/Place, July 27, 2018 (Reuters link; also published by Sight Magazine; Voice of America; AllAfrica; Devdiscourse)

Fishermen work on the shores of West Point, a slum in Liberia which risks being washed away by the sea

‘For refugees in Sudan, fears surround probe into UN resettlement fraud’, IRIN News, July 23, 2018 (in Arabic; also on Cameroon Voice)

I went on BBC World Service’s Focus on Africa to speak about witnessing three Lord’s Resistance Army escapees reunite with their families (from about 32 minutes in), July 16, 2018

Radio report on Uganda’s local elections, RTE World Report, July 15, 2018 (from about 12 minutes in)

Radio report on Uganda’s social media tax, RTE World Report, July 8, 2018 (from about 12 minutes in)

‘Uganda’s “gossip tax” forces phone users into a boycott’, the Irish Times, July 7, 2018 (I also spoke about this on Al Jazeera English)

I was in the European Parliament in Brussels to speak about the situation for refugees in Sudan, June 27-28, 2018

Radio report from Liberia (from about 11:50), RTE World Report, June 24, 3018

A picture of former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh still hangs in a house in his home region, Foni

‘After long dictatorship, Gambia’s victims step forward’, the Irish Times, June 22, 2018

A radio report from the World Cup for unrecognised nations, RTE Drivetime, June 11, 2018 (from 02:24:00)

A radio piece on life after war in northern Uganda, RTE World Report, June 3, 2018 (from about 12.30 in)

Photographing prosthetics for the war-wounded in Gulu Hospital, northern Uganda

I visited Lokodi, northern Uganda, the site of a 2004 LRA massacre, and met the residents fighting to build a museum, New Internationalist, June 2018 issue