Selected Writing
2020 | Exclusive: Top-secret testimonies implicate Rwanda’s president in war crimes. MAIL & GUARDIAN. For years, UN investigators secretly compiled evidence that implicated Rwandan President Paul Kagame and other high-level officials in mass killings before, during and after the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The explosive evidence came from Tutsi soldiers who broke with the regime and risked their lives to expose what they knew. Their sworn testimony to a UN court contradicted the dominant story about the country’s brutal descent into violence, which depicted Kagame and his RPF as the country’s saviours. Despite the testimonies, a UN war crimes tribunal — on the recommendation of the United States — never prosecuted Kagame and his commanders. Now, for the first time, a significant portion of the UN evidence is revealed, in redacted form.
2019 | Rwanda’s war nearly destroyed this park. Now it’s coming back. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. Akagera National Park was badly degraded by poachers and settlers, but thanks to an innovative conservation effort it is now home again to the Big Five and a growing tourism business.
2018 | Crossroads Djibouti: The African migrants who defy Yemen’s war. THE NEW HUMANITARIAN. Braving harsh terrain, kidnapping threats and a months’ long journey.
2015 | A country on the brink: Millions go hungry in South Sudan. AL JAZEERA. Forty percent of the population doesn’t have enough food as fighting intensifies in the world’s newest country.
2015 | Papua New Guinea, where accusations of black magic can mean death. AL JAZEERA. Aid agencies evacuate on average 15 people per week; experts say wealth gap may fuel such claims.
2015 | Taming one of the world’s oldest diseases in fast-growing Papua New Guinea. AL JAZEERA. Poor access to adequate care leads to TB ‘hot zones’ and the rise of drug-resistant strains.
2015 | In Photos: Haiti Opposition Groups Launch New Round of Street Protests FOREIGN POLICY.
2014 | Haiti’s political impasse a distant crisis for the disaffected poor. AL JAZEERA. Poor Haitians disillusioned by years of broken government promises have learned to fend for themselves.
2014 | Harvest of Fear: Examining the Roots of the Central African Republic’s Séléka Rebel Movement. Part 1 of 3.
2014 | Fighting over the Spoils of War: Resources, Resentment at the Heart of CAR Conflict. Part 2 of 3.
2014 | An Uncertain Path to Reconciliation: With UN Mission in Early Stages, Local Aid Groups Carry Burden of Justice. Part 3 of 3.
2014 | Hanging By a Thread: FOREIGN POLICY. The UN’s new mission to the war-torn Central African Republic needs more money, manpower, and training.
2014 | Sectarian Violence Flares in the Central African Republic, Killing at Least 12 FOREIGN POLICY.
2010 | Tanzania Takes the Edge off an old Black Panther CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. After 38 years in the bush of Tanzania, former Black Panther leader Pete O’Neal has shed his belligerent revolutionary fervor and today spends his time working with disadvantaged African children.