My writing has been published by 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 nominated "International Journalist of the Year" in the 2016 One World Media Award and in 2014 received a Pulitzer grant and a reporting fellowship from the International Women's Media Foundation. In 2014, I was a New Voice nominee in the One World Media Award.

Based in Nairobi, I reported from DR Congo, Somalia, Kenya, Burundi, South Sudan, Rwanda, Madagascar, Tanzania, Guinea Bissau and Senegal. I appeared live on BBC, CNN, CBS and France 24. I am currently in Llangollen, North Wales.