Fellows & Editors
Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
- Trip:
- Fellows 2017
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Mauritania
- Year:
- 2017
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Jillian Kestler-D’Amours is a Canadian journalist based in Toronto. She writes primarily about human rights issues, refugees, indigenous communities, and political conflict. Her work has appeared in Al Jazeera English, Deutsche Welle, News Deeply, The Toronto Star, Le Monde Diplomatique, Middle East Eye, The Canadian Press, and Newsweek Middle East, among others. She has reported from across the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in South America, Asia, the United States, and Europe. She holds a degree in journalism and political science from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, and she completed a course on reporting safely in crisis zones at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in 2016.
Stories
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‘We Are Not Yet Free’: Living in Slavery’s Shadow in Mauritania
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania—Maatalla Mboirick’s home sits a few hundred meters off the main road of this desert city, past high mounds of orange sand. It is little more than...
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Mauritania’s Veterans in the Fight Against Sexual Violence
NOUAKCHOTT, MAURITANIA – Behind a bright turquoise gate, the El Wafa Center opens into a sandy courtyard. A group of women sit in the shade of an aluminum awning, escaping the blazing...
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Stalled
Mbera refugee camp, Mauritania – Nana Mint Cheybani has abandoned the thought of going back to Mali. Life in Mbera refugee camp, on the southeast corner of Mauritania, a desert country on...
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Mauritanian women take economic independence into their own hands
A half-dozen men lug a silver-coloured vat towards the two-room building. It's a tight squeeze through the doorframe, and a few men are forced to let go to get the machine...
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Refugees in Mauritania in lonely fight for mental health care
MBERA REFUGEE CAMP, Mauritania – As tens of thousands of refugees from Mali remain displaced in this expansive camp, families are growing increasingly concerned by a lack of support for their mental...
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An uneasy coexistence in the Mauritanian desert
Mbera refugee camp, Mauritania - It is often difficult to know where the sprawling Mbera refugee camp ends, and the desolate, desert communities of southeastern Mauritania begin. {image-1} Both spring up almost...
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Syrian refugees in Mauritania dream of resettlement
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – Mohamad Mudar Oulabie knows he doesn't have many choices. But after almost five years in Mauritania, an impoverished and isolated country on the coast of West Africa, the 5...
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