Fellows & Editors
Siobhán O'Grady
- Trip:
- Fellows 2017
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Nigeria
- Year:
- 2017
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Siobhán O’Grady is a freelance journalist who works across sub-Saharan Africa. A former staff writer at Foreign Policy magazine in Washington, D.C., her reporting focuses largely on international politics, conflict, and diplomacy. Through grants from the International Women’s Media Foundation, she has reported from Eastern Congo, where she tracked down a missing United Nations drone, and South Sudan, where she documented the toll of large-scale atrocities on civilian communities. Before working at Foreign Policy, she covered border security, drug cartels, and prison reform for the Houston Chronicle’s Washington bureau. A Boston native, she holds degrees in political science and French from Dickinson College and has lived in Morocco, Cameroon, and Kenya.
Stories
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Wives of Warring Rivals Strive to Bring Peace to Nigeria’s Kaduna State
GOLKOFA, NIGERIA – The shouting started in the distance, but Zulai Bello knew it would soon reach her front door. As the voices got louder, she grabbed her seven children and ran...
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People cheered the release of Nigeria’s Chibok girls but thousands of others were kidnapped
In early 2014, Yakinge Kolomi faced a nightmarish dilemma. Boko Haram extremists had recently rampaged through areas close to her village in northeastern Nigeria, massacring men who refused to join them and abducting...
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How teen moms in Nigeria could wind up hurt by Trump’s U.N. cuts
LAGOS, Nigeria — Supo Nofisat didn’t mean to get pregnant. As a single, unemployed 18-year-old living in Nigeria, she knew that having a child could mean an even harder life....
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