The Christian Science Monitor • 12th March 2024 In Senegal, domestic violence survivors craft hope in silver In Senegal, silversmithing is “men’s work.” Now, a group of women who survived domestic violence is flipping the script, and healing their own traumas in the process.
Al Jazeera • 29th February 2024 How an EU-funded security force helped Senegal crush democracy protests An elite EU-trained Senegalese police unit was meant to tackle cross-border crime. It was used to quash demonstrations.
Al Jazeera • 23rd January 2024 ‘Conflict timber’: Gambian traffickers continue rosewood trade despite ban Al Jazeera investigation finds connection between secessionist struggle in Senegal and timber traffickers in Gambia.
New Lines Magazine • 10th January 2024 Senegal’s Woman Caliph In one of the country’s most patriarchal structures, a family line of women scholars has upended traditional ideas.
Le Monde • 6th September 2023 Comment l’Europe sous-traite à l’Afrique le contrôle des migrations Enquête en quatre parties sur les politiques européennes visant à freiner les migrations en provenance du continent africain.
New Lines Magazine • 18th August 2023 The Witches Want Justice After Yahya Jammeh brutalized his people, the reconciliation process is at a crossroads.
Foreign Policy • 10th August 2023 The Shadow of the Next Pandemic Looms in a Virus Hotspot Low vaccination coverage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo raises the risk of diseases spreading and adapting undetected.
In These Times • 26th July 2023 How Europe Outsourced Border Enforcement to Africa The European Union is militarizing Africa’s internal borders to curb migration, with little regard for human rights.
The Telegraph • 12th April 2023 A rare form of polio threatens DR Congo – this is why it matters The threat of vaccine-derived polio stems from four sub-regions across the world, but the DRC is of “particular concern".
Are We Europe - Untold Stories • 13th May 2022 The Marks Left Behind How Ukrainian refugees and Romanians come together in Cluj
Middle East Eye • 7th April 2022 Jews flock to eastern Europe to help Jewish Ukrainians flee the war Moldovan synagogues are helping thousands of Jews get out of Ukraine and head for Israel, western Europe and the US.
Middle East Eye • 11th December 2021 What does Israel's iron wall surrounding Gaza mean for Palestinians? Dozens of antennas, hundreds of cameras and radars are all positioned on the fortification that surrounds Gaza.
Al Jazeera English • 13th May 2022 In Moldova, a pro-Russia region welcomes Ukrainian refugees Gagauzia region in Moldova is torn between Russia, Turkey and the EU.
Al Jazeera English • 10th May 2022 Moldova celebrates Soviet victory, but divisions deepen amid war While some fear Russia, others view Moscow as a saviour as the conflict in Ukraine comes closer to Moldova’s borders.
Middle East Eye • 19th March 2022 Transnistria: The breakaway region torn between Moldova, Russia and the EU War in Ukraine have reignited questions about the future of Transnistria, a pro-Russian enclave in Moldova.
Middle East Eye • 15th March 2022 Moldova greets Ukrainian refugee influx with compassion and wariness Moldova has received the most Ukrainians per capita in Europe, but international aid is stalling and social tensions are rising.
Al Jazeera English • 7th March 2022 Ukraine’s Roma refugees recount discrimination en route to safety Hundreds of Ukraine’s Roma people face an uncertain future in Moldova’s capital Chisinau as many are not documented.
Middle East Eye • 5th March 2022 Moldovans brace for potential Russian invasion Moldovans fear they might be next after Russia invades Ukraine.
Middle East Eye • 3rd March 2022 Tunisian students escape Ukraine carnage to chaos on the Romanian border Tunisia's embassy is coordinating evacuations from Ukraine, but its success is due to one man.
Al Jazeera English • 3rd March 2022 Traumatised Indian students overcome adversity to reach Romania Indians fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine describe their journey to safety and how they were received in neighbouring Romania.
Al Jazeera English • 26th February 2022 Romania on edge as Russia invades Ukraine Despite assurances from Romania’s leadership, many in the Eastern European nation fear wider Russian attacks.
Middle East Eye • 23rd November 2021 How amphetamines fuelled Saudi Arabia's anger against Lebanon Captagon trafficking has contributed to Lebanon's diplomatic crisis with the Gulf, but there is more than drugs behind the freeze in relations.
Lighthouse Reports • 6th October 2021 Unmasking Europe's Shadow Armies The visual evidence that removes the layer of plausible deniability from illegal pushbacks of asylum seekers in the Balkans and Aegean.
Der Spiegel • 7th October 2021 Europe's Violent Shadow Army Unmasked Mysterious men wearing balaclavas are beating up refugees at the external EU border or abandoning them at sea.