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Award Winner!

Orla Guerin the Correspondent I worked with for nearly a year in Africa has been awarded the prestigious David Bloom award for our piece from Kibati Refugee Camp in Goma, Eastern Congo. The award was given at the Annual TV and Radio Correspondents Dinner in Washington with President Barrack Obama in attendance.

Although I’m disappointed not [...]

Welcome to Hell. Congo, September 2008.

“Hay my friend, why are you taking my picture?” I looked up to see the six Congolese soldiers standing over me; they seemed inquisitive rather than angry. I’d been filming Displaced people carrying their belongings along the road that lead north from Goma in the Eastern Congo, people who had left everything except what they [...]