My writing has been published by The Atavist, TIME, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, ELLE, Marie Claire, New Statesman, Guardian Long Read, Guardian Weekend Magazine and Sunday Telegraph Magazine amongst others. In 2015, I authored an ebook, published by Newsweek Insights. 

I was awarded a One World Media Award and the ​Frontline Club's print award in 2017 for my Guardian story, Murder in Burundi.  My work in Africa has also been awarded a Pulitzer grant and a reporting fellowship from the International Women's Media Foundation.

I have reported from DR Congo, Somalia, Kenya, Burundi, South Sudan, Rwanda, Madagascar, Tanzania, Guinea Bissau and Senegal and have made regular live appearances on BBC radio. I live in Llangollen, North Wales.