‘”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

‘Gambia’s dictator ordered a witch hunt. This village is still haunted by it.’, Washington Post, May 28, 2018 (Republished by the Seattle Times. I also spoke about this story on BBC World Service)

Interviewing victims of a witch hunt in Sintet, rural Gambia

‘I got an abortion aged 16, now I’m flying home to vote’, ELLE, May 24, 2018

Teenagers sit in a dormitory in the unaccompanied minors section of Shagarab refugee camp, eastern Sudan

‘EXCLUSIVE: Refugees in Sudan allege chronic corruption in UN resettlement process’, Irin News, May 15, 2018 (Republished by the Sudan Tribune and All Africa. Write up in OCCRP. Two days after the publication of this investigation, UNHCR announced they were suspending their resettlement programme and sending out an anti-fraud team)

The Rory Peck Trust included me as one of their featured freelancers for World Press Day.

‘Returning LRA hostages face new ordeal over land conflicts in rural Uganda’, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, May 3, 2018 (also on the Christian Science Monitor)

Children of a former LRA captive pictured on a plot of land the family moved to after being chased from their former community in northern Uganda.

I tracked down one of seven refugees transferred to Cambodia from Nauru under a controversial $55 million deal, New Internationalist, May 2018 issue

Mohammad Rashid, a Rohingya from Myanmar who now runs a roti stand in Phnom Penh.

Honoured to have work nominated for the One World Media awards in the digital media and refugee reporting categories – and to be named a ‘2018 Rising Star’ by the News Media Alliance.

My photo was included in this National Geographic series, ’25 Cultural and Natural Wonders in Danger’, April 20, 2018 (and in National Geographic Japan)

Talking about collaborative reporting of refugee issues at the International Journalism Festival, April 14, 2018

Spoke about Westerners touring Syria on the Irish Times podcast, April 10, 2018

Ranked 39th most influential Irish journalist on Twitter.

A radio report from the Gambia on feelings against ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh (from 17.40), RTE World Report, April 8, 2018

‘Fake news tourism in Syria: Westerners search for “truth”, but are they Assad’s pawns?’ Newsweek, April 5, 2018 (also in Spanish) 

‘Portraits of three Syrian cities’, the New Internationalist, April edition (link)

Homs, November 2017.

Radio report on a “kleptocracy tour” around London (from 01:50:10), RTE Drivetime, Mar 26, 2018

‘Facebook used to cripple opposition in run-up to Cambodia’s elections’, the Irish Times, Mar 20, 2018

‘Arrests and torture of Syrian refugees returning home reported’, the Irish Times, Mar 17, 2018 (Arabic translation here, and Arabic write-up in Der Telegraph)

‘Why are victims of FGM ending up in prison?’, ELLE, Mar 12, 2018

‘Between Sudan and a hard place’, New Internationalist, March 2018 issue

An Eritrean teenager poses in a dormitory in Shagarab refugee camp, eastern Sudan.

A report from Aleppo’s historic Baron Hotel (from about 11.30 in), RTE Radio One, Feb 11, 2018

The bar in Aleppo’s Baron Hotel, which was close to the frontline before the city was retaken by government forces. More photos here

‘”We’ve seen too many girls bleed to death”: eradicating FGM in Uganda’, the Irish Times, Feb 6, 2018

My self-reported, self-edited package on FGM in northeast Uganda went out on RTE Drivetime, Feb 6, 2018

Photographing former “cutters” in northeast Uganda. More photos here

Spoke about FGM on World View, the Irish Times’s weekly podcast, Feb 6, 2018

‘Schools act as havens for girls fleeing FGM, marriage in Uganda’, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Feb 6, 2018 (also on Voice of America, Kenyan News, All Africa, Citizen TV Kenya)

Young girls who fled home after their families tried to marry them off or perform FGM on them. Karamoja, northeast Uganda.

Some of my photos from Uganda were also in the Guardian and used by SBS.

I was also honoured to be named a finalist for Amnesty International’s Gaby Rado award for best new journalist.

Churchgoers walking home in front of the Kokwotom mountain in Karamoja, northeast Uganda, in January

A piece for RTE Radio One’s World Report on the growing difficulty getting family reunification for refugees in Germany (from about 11.15), Jan 28, 2018

‘Captured, raped, ransomed: the kidnappers preying on Eritrean refugees’, the Guardian, Jan 19, 2018

‘Shooting the sidelines at Syria’s football cup final’, HUCK, Jan 12, 2018

Boys pose in front of a billboard showing Bashar al Assad at the Syrian Football Cup final in Tishreen Stadium, Damascus

Report from government-held Syria on what it’s like for families left behind (from 10.45), RTE Radio 1 World Report, Jan 7, 2018

Rabwah, an area of Damascus with restaurants and a small funfair

‘Left with “chocolate water”, Madagascar’s parched south grows hungrier’, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Jan 5, 2018 (more photos on SOPA Images)

Locals walk through Ambovombe, a city in southern Madagascar’s Androy region

‘Inside a traumatised Aleppo: “Many children may suffer in the future”‘, New Statesman, Dec 22, 2017

‘The lonely fight in Sudan: one official works to stem migrant smuggling without a car, a photocopier, or any staff’, 100 Reporters/Journalists for Transparency, Dec 20, 2017

‘Africa’s crossroads: In Sudan, corruption and smugglers’ lies drive refugees onwards’, 100 Reporters/Journalists for Transparency, Dec 20, 2017 (also in the Irish Times)

Eritrean girls chat in their dorm in the unaccompanied minors section of Shagarab camp, close to the Eritrean border in eastern Sudan. More photos from Sudan here and here.

‘On the rough road from Sudan to Libya’, 100 Reporters/Journalists for Transparency, Dec 20, 2017

‘The new coyote trail: Refugees head west to bypass Fortress Europe’, Refugees Deeply, Dec 19, 2017 (part of a bigger project looking at migration across Africa and the Americas. Also in the Pacific Standard)

‘A tale of two fathers: “The way I miss my kids is indescribable”’, Irish Times, Dec 16, 2017

‘Der Weg zurück nach Syrien’, ZEIT Online, Dec 11, 2017

An interview with Bridget Doody, the only Irish nun in Syria, RTE Drivetime, Dec 8, 2017

‘Road to Damascus: the Syrian refugees who want to go home’, Irish Times, Dec 4, 2017 – our four-month Mary Raftery Refugee Crisis Journalism Fund investigation into what happens to Syrian refugees who leave Europe. Also in Arabic (in an Irish Times first). Recommended as a Griffith Review “great read” and one of Refugees Deeply’s ‘Must read stories on refugees from 2017’. Included in Irish Times 2017 ‘highlights’.

‘From Our Own Correspondent’ dispatch on fake news and the plague in Madagascar – BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service, Dec 4, 2017