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I write about human rights, social and humanitarian issues, global development and the environment.
Reporting from across the developing world, as well as Europe, I tell stories of survival, resistance, environmental activism and economic empowerment. I like to explore solutions rather than merely exposing problems. I am bilingual English/French.
My work has been published in The Guardian, Economist, Newsweek, Al Jazeera, Times, Telegraph, BBC News, National Geographic, NPR, Financial Times’ This is Africa, Thomson Reuters Foundation, New Internationalist, Positive News, Le Monde, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and many other media.
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The show is Yegna. Its goal (besides entertainment) is to tackle issues affecting teen girls (and boys, too), from a lack of menstrual pads to why betting is unwise. We talk to one of the writers.
Both an artistic statement and a physical barrier to seafloor trawling, the 'Guardians' also provide a jump-start for the biodiversity decimated by trawling – and a safeguard for a dwindling climate saviour.
Nutritious, packed with protein and easy to grow, one insect farmer is promoting crickets as a sustainable food source. "Oh, they sing! I love their sounds. I love being in a room full of crickets," enthuses Esnath Divasoni, her eyes sparkling behind her large glasses.
The NGO Ni Nyampinga has created accessible prevention guidelines, regularly reaching 680,000 women and girls.
The women came from the far corners of the country by the dozen, from traffic-choked Accra, bustling market towns and remote rural villages - with huge golden rings on their fingers and rows of beads around their necks. 'We wear a lot of gold and pearls to signify that we are precious,' says one with a grin.
A women-run solar station near the front line in Abs is empowering its owners and improving life in their community. "The role of women was housework only," laments Huda Othman Hassan, a young woman from Abs, a rural district in the north of Yemen, near the border with Saudi Arabia.
What is it like to grow up in an Afghan village with no water or electricity, then to find yourself alone in London at 18, not speaking a word of English? How does it feel to have to wait for life to begin because you can't get a driving licence, go to university or find a job until you get your papers?
One morning, citizens of this small Tuscan city, tucked away on the western slopes of the Apuan Alps in northern Italy, awoke to a strange protest. Grievance signs in blood-red letters had appeared overnight on the city's statutes.
I've asked environmental lawyer Alfred Brownell why he has risked everything to protect Liberia's rainforest and the indigenous communities who live there, from palm oil destruction. He now lives in exile in the US.
Haiti has the highest HIV/Aids levels outside Africa, but efforts at prevention and treatment are hamstrung by fear, superstition and the armed gangs that rule the slums. We followed a group of women who dare to care.