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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.

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
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

US Embassy staff flee advancing rebel army, The Times, 29 December 2012 (£)
‘Fragile’ Mandela forbidden to leave Johannesburg, The Times, 27 December 2012 (£)
Democratic Republic of Congo dismisses Goma withdrawal conditions, The Daily Telegraph, 28 November 2012
Regional leaders call for Congo rebel withdrawal as humanitarian impact deepens, The Daily Telegraph, 24 November 2012
Rwanda and DRC trade accusations of shelling as tensions mount, The Daily Telegraph, 19 November 2012
Hay Festival Nairobi: Exciting times for literature in Kenya, The Daily Telegraph, 17 September 2012
Hay Festival Nairobi: Promoting a culture of reading, The Daily Telegraph, 14 September 2012
If all goes well, Somalia soon may have a government, Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2012
Islamist militants attack historic Timbuktu sites, The Daily Telegraph, 1 July 2012
Kenyan police arrest Iranians suspected of terror plot, The Daily Telegraph, 22 June 2012
Judith Tebbutt: I didn't know my husband had been killed by my kidnappers for two weeks, The Daily Telegraph, 21 March 2012
Judith Tebbutt released by pirates after held hostage for six months, The Daily Telegraph, 21 March 2012
Somalia national theatre reopens after 20 years, The Daily Telegraph, 20 March 2012
CIA joins hunt for 7/7 widow who 'collaborated with terrorists', The Daily Telegraph, 1 March 2012
Top US General warns of coordination between al-Qaeda-linked African terror groups, The Daily Telegraph, 1 March 2012
Massive al-Shabaab suicide bomb kills over 80 in Somali capital Mogadishu, The Daily Telegraph, 4 October 2011
UN refugee agency warns of crisis 'of unimaginable proportions' in Somalia drought, The Daily Telegraph, 6 July 2011
At least 20 killed in economic protests in Tunisia and Algeria, The Daily Telegraph, 10 January 2011
Two French hostages killed by al-Qaeda kidnappers during failed rescue attempt, The Sunday Telegraph, 9 January 2011
Ivory Coast president orders peacekeepers to leave as crisis escalates, The Sunday Telegraph, 19 December 2010
Palestine's secret oasis, New Statesman, 4 December 2008

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