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Sophie Neiman

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Journalist covering conflict and human rights | living in Kampala | trying to keep print reporting alive | she/her

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 09/10/2026
After three brilliant years, @beckierutherford.bsky.social's fellowship is coming to an end. A historian of health, gender, and activism in modern Britain, Beckie has edited a selection of incredible articles focused on the experiences and ideas of disabled people.
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Radical Object: The Radar Key
The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 09/10/2026
We're also celebrating the work of marral, who has helped to steer History Workshop as both an editorial fellow and a managing editor. Marral's work is rooted in global activist histories, and particularly the ties between Arab and Iranian revolutionaries.
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"Britain's Vietnam": Remembering Dhufar
The 9th of June 1965 was declared as the first day of the Dhufar Revolution. What role did a small group of British solidarity activists play in the revolution's fate?
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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
PULITZER CENTER: After 3 Years of War, Sudanese Civilians Pay the Price pulitzercenter.org/stories/afte...? @pulitzercenter.org @sophie-neiman.bsky.social @guypeterson.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography
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After 3 Years of War, Sudanese Civilians Pay the Price
Young soldiers, wearing uniforms the same color as the sandy ground, play card games in a market stall to fill time between firefights. Less than a mile away, in a displacement camp clinging to the...
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Brilliant piece by @alexjwhite.bsky.social about how the Bandung Conference helped African and Asian voices matter on the world stage. Proud of my brilliant fiancé for telling that story with such detail and care. Read it here!👇 engelsbergideas.com/essays/bandu...
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Bandung and the birth of non-alignment
In 1955, leaders from Asia and Africa convened to assert their independence from superpower blocs, sowing the seeds of the Non-Aligned Movement.
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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
'Ultimately, the summit was most significant for its political diversity. The fierce debates between delegates proved that the future of the postcolonial world was not set in stone.' In my latest for EI, I explore how debates and disagreements gave the Bandung Conference a lasting political power.
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The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
After three years of fighting, there is no end in sight for Sudan’s brutal civil war. Its civilians are paying an unfathomable price. #sudan #civilwar #conflict www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa...
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After 3 years of war, Sudanese civilians pay the price
Three years of fighting have carved Sudan into two halves. The fight is now for the country’s center, where civilians are paying a devastating price.
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The Fletcher School @fletcherschool.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"After 3 Years of War, Sudanese Civilians Pay the Price," with commentary from Professor Alex de Waal. @csmonitor.bsky.social @sophie-neiman.bsky.social @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa...
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After 3 years of war, Sudanese civilians pay the price
Three years of fighting have carved Sudan into two halves. The fight is now for the country’s center, where civilians are paying a devastating price.
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Light for the World @light-for-the-world.org · 14/04/2026
South Sudan's Bright Stars started with two players in 2020. Now they're competing internationally with their sights set on the Paralympic Games in Los Angeles. @telegraph.co.uk tells their story. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... #BlindFootball #DisabilityInclusion
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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
PULITZER CENTER: Sudan’s War in the Mountains pulitzercenter.org/stories/suda...? @pulitzercenter.org @sophie-neiman.bsky.social @guypeterson.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 06/04/2026
“In the vacuum opened by state collapse, other international powers have moved in.” Egypt, Turkey, the UAE. Sophie Neiman reports from Sudan
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Sudan’s war in the mountains
The Nuba Mountains, once shielded by their isolation, have become a new front in one of the world’s most brutal conflicts
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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
More incredible reporting from my fiancée @sophie-neiman.bsky.social, this time on a mountain region being reshaped by Sudan's civil war. I cannot imagine the bravery of the displaced people interviewed. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/africa...
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Sudan’s war in the mountains
The Nuba Mountains, once shielded by their isolation, have become a new front in one of the world’s most brutal conflicts
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I traveled to the Nuba Mountains with @guypeterson.bsky.social 📸 to document how foreign powers are shaping Sudan's war while civilians pay the price. Read our story in @prospectmagazine.co.uk, with thanks to @pulitzercenter.org for the support! www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/africa...
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Sudan’s war in the mountains
The Nuba Mountains, once shielded by their isolation, have become a new front in one of the world’s most brutal conflicts
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 01/04/2026
“Seeing my notebook, they shout angrily that Egypt must stop supplying drones to the SAF. Give us ‘peace by any means,” a man…calls out.” Sophie Neiman reports from Sudan
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Sudan’s war in the mountains
The Nuba Mountains, once shielded by their isolation, have become a new front in one of the world’s most brutal conflicts
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 08/12/2025
Today’s campaigns against the BBC, from Donald Trump to The Daily Telegraph, have a surprisingly long history. In our latest article, David Nowell Smith explores how commercial rivalries inspired the first accusations of left-wing bias at the BBC.
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The Surprising Origins of the BBC’s ‘Left-Wing Bias’
David Nowell Smith explores how commercial rivalries inspired the first accusations of institutional bias at the BBC.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 07/10/2025
What traces of Indigenous American history lie within English country houses? In our latest article, Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt explore how trade and tobacco shaped a famous stately home. www.historyworkshop....
Display case of dozens of white clay tobacco pipes excavated in England. Their form derives from Indigenous American pipe traditions, showing how Native technologies were adopted, industrialised, and embedded into English social life.
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International Press Association of Uganda @ipauganda.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Here's @sophie-neiman.bsky.social's latest for @afp.com, on how palliative care reshaped the Ugandan health sector. Photo credit to fellow IPAU member Katumba Badru Sultan!
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International Press Association of Uganda @ipauganda.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Uganda is one of the largest coffee producers in the world - but women's roles in the industry are often overlooked. Thanks to Patrick Onen for sharing his story on a women-led coffee business in Mbale: www.africanews.com/2025/05/10/h...
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How Ugandan women are taking control of the coffee business | Africanews
In the hills of eastern Uganda, women coffee farmers are gaining long-overdue financial power and respect through a bold initiative that pays them more than men for their harvests
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Dr. Anne Merriman, who died in May at 90, pioneered palliative care in Africa. In 1993, only 3 countries offered it. By her death, her Ugandan hospice had cared for 40,000 people—and her model had reached 37 countries. For @en.afp.com with 📸 by Katumba Badru👇 www.barrons.com/news/legacy-...
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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
New article out today! I interviewed Prof. Derek Peterson about A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda - a new book that explores why so many young nationalists chose to lend their talents to a violent dictatorship. www.geeska.com/en/derek-pet...
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Derek Peterson: ‘What I try to do is to explain why demagogues like Amin possess the power to convince ’
Derek Peterson, the author of a new history of Idi Amin’s Uganda, reflects on how ordinary people lived and worked under a violent dictatorship.
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International Press Association of Uganda @ipauganda.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Congratulations to IPAU co-chair @sophie-neiman.bsky.social for winning the Gaby Rado Award from Amnesty International! Sophie won the award for her reporting on women's experiences of war in eastern DRC.
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International Press Association of Uganda @ipauganda.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Hello world! We're the International Press Association of Uganda - a community of journalists and photographers working for global news outlets. We're going to be using this account to showcase of recent work by journalists based in Uganda, so follow us if you're interested in hearing more!
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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Huge congrats to Sophie for her award-winning reporting! It's so well deserved and a testament to the extraordinary women she profiled.
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
So honored to share that my reporting about women in Congo won the Gaby Rado Award from @amnestyuk.bsky.social last night. What an honor it is! #AmnestyMediaAwards
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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Malcolm X was born one hundred years ago today. It's impossible to distil his complicated legacy into a single idea - but as the US government continues to enable serious global injustice, his efforts to put Black Americans in touch with African and Asian activists seem as relevant as ever.
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Greg Fitzgerald @gfitzboston.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Journalists bear witness. But what they see can be almost impossible to make sense of, as our correspondent discovered in eastern Congo. #Africa #war #Congo www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa...
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In Congo, a reporter returns to a city transformed by war
On the front lines of war in eastern Congo, a Monitor reporter struggled to make sense of the suffering she witnessed.
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I wrote in first person for a change--reflecting on the deep difficulties journalists face when we must bear witness to truly senseless violence and suffering. My latest from Goma for @csmonitor.bsky.social 👇 www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa...
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In Congo, a reporter returns to a city transformed by war
On the front lines of war in eastern Congo, a Monitor reporter struggled to make sense of the suffering she witnessed.
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
After taking the city of Goma, M23 forced displaced people to go back home. This is a possible war crime, so I went to one village to see how people are rebuilding amid destroyed houses and fields littered with ammunition. My latest from Congo 👇 www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa...
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Near war’s front lines, a Congolese village hesitantly rebuilds
In February, rebels conquered eastern Congo’s largest city, forcing displaced people sheltering there to return to homes in the middle of a war zone.
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
My latest @csmonitor.bsky.social 👇
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The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Near war’s front lines, a Congolese village hesitantly rebuilds
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Near war’s front lines, a Congolese village hesitantly rebuilds
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Greg Fitzgerald @gfitzboston.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
From Palestinians in Gaza to migrants being deported from the U.S., displaced people around the world are being compelled to return to homes that are still unsafe. Here is what that looks like in one Congolese village. #war #conflict #africa www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa...
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Near war’s front lines, a Congolese village hesitantly rebuilds
In February, rebels conquered eastern Congo’s largest city, forcing displaced people sheltering there to return to homes in the middle of a war zone.
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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
THE TELEGRAPH: ‘It’s a death sentence’: the families scraping a living in Uganda’s new gold rush www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @telegraphnews.bsky.social @sophie-neiman.bsky.social @simontownsley.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography
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‘It’s a death sentence’: the families scraping a living in Uganda’s new gold rush
As the climate gets ever hotter and drier, thousands have been forced into scouring the soil for riches
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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: The world looked away from Congo’s rape crisis. She did not. www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa...? @csmonitor.bsky.social @sophie-neiman.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography
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The world looked away from Congo’s rape crisis. She did not.
This year, a rebel army called M23 has captured large sections of eastern Congo, exposing women there to a familiar weapon of war: rape.
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
When Rwandan-backed M23 rebels invaded Goma, some 50 rape survivors arrived at Jeanne Nacatche Banyere's door. But Maman Jeanne could do little more than write their names and offer a hug. Her women's shelter had run out out of funds. 👇 www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa...
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The world looked away from Congo’s rape crisis. She did not.
This year, a rebel army called M23 has captured large sections of eastern Congo, exposing women there to a familiar weapon of war: rape.
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
My reporting from Goma for @csmonitor.bsky.social. This is the first in a series about life under M23 occupation.
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The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The world looked away from Congo’s rape crisis. She did not.
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The world looked away from Congo’s rape crisis. She did not.
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Caught between climate change and big, extractive companies, the artisanal miners of Karamoja know the true price of gold. More with my latest for @telegraphnews.bsky.social / @telglobalhealth.bsky.social with stunning photos from @simontownsley.bsky.social. 👇 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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‘It’s a death sentence’: the families scraping a living in Uganda’s new gold rush
As the climate gets ever hotter and drier, thousands have been forced into scouring the soil for riches
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Caught between climate change and big, extractive companies, the artisanal miners of Karamoja know the true price of gold. More with my latest for @telegraphnews.bsky.social / @telglobalhealth.bsky.social with stunning photos from @simontownsley.bsky.social. 👇 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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‘It’s a death sentence’: the families scraping a living in Uganda’s new gold rush
As the climate gets ever hotter and drier, thousands have been forced into scouring the soil for riches
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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Fascinating work by @sophie-neiman.bsky.social in The Telegraph today on the changing climate of northern Uganda and the communities turning to small-scale gold mining to make ends meet. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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‘It’s a death sentence’: the families scraping a living in Uganda’s new gold rush
As the climate gets ever hotter and drier, thousands have been forced into scouring the soil for riches
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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New article out today! I wrote about the African Association - an influential network of anti-colonial activists based in the heart of Nasser's Egypt. You can read it at @historywo.bsky.social here:
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African Activism in Anticolonial Cairo
In the 1950s-60s, the African Association in Cairo became a hub for anticolonial activists from across the world. Alex White examines the role of transnational activists who shaped the anticolonial mo...
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Business, Human Rights & Environment @ FIDH @fidh-bhr.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
As @sophie-neiman.bsky.social reports, the impacts of the #EACOP oil megaproject in Uganda have been felt differently & unequally along the pipeline’s path. The growing mobilisation against them has been met with increased repression & criminalisation. www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa... 1/2
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Why rich oil reserves are a mixed blessing for Ugandans
A controversial oil pipeline project in Uganda and Tanzania has displaced tens of thousands, generating an outcry from residents and activists.
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
My latest @csmonitor.bsky.social 👇
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The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Why rich oil reserves are a mixed blessing for Ugandans
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Why rich oil reserves are a mixed blessing for Ugandans
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Kristof Titeca @kristoftiteca.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Excellent but concerning article about the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, and in particular about the (deliberate) lack of communication by the national health authorities - largely under pressure from the tourism industry www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Uganda battles new Ebola outbreak — and a vaccine hesitancy crisis
Amid sixth outbreak of Sudan Ebola virus, Ugandans bemoan lack of official communication and fears for the economy.
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
My heart is breaking for Goma, for dear friends there, and for displaced people who have been uprooted time and time again, and are now fleeing once more. Pay attention to Congo. 💔
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/01/2025
People who fled M23 rebels around Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have found themselves with nowhere left to go. nyti.ms/40BBQQV
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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
New article out now! I wrote for @thewire.in about All India Radio's support for nationalism in East Africa - and why these ambitious efforts ultimately failed to overcome political realities. thewire.in/diplomacy/ho...
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How Indian Broadcasts Shaped East Africa’s Struggle For Independence
Seventy years ago, AIR created a new service for listeners in East Africa. Its programmes tried to create a united front against empire – but its audiences often had other ideas.
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
In 2024, I met militants in DRC and mothers giving birth near the frontlines. In Mozambique, I uncovered army abuses connected to a major natural gas project. In Uganda, I attended a vigil mourning deaths from unsafe abortions and ate with Sudanese refugees. It’s been an honor! 🧵
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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 13/12/2024
For the 2024 #PulitzerStaffPick, Communications Director Sarah Swan selected the story “In Congo, Embroidery Artist Stitches an Archive of War” by grantees @sophie-neiman.bsky.social and Hugh Kinsella Cunningham for @csmonitor.bsky.social. 👉 bit.ly/2024YISpc
"In Congo, Embroidery Artist Stitches an Archive of War"
By Sophie Neiman and Hugh Kinsella Cunningham for Christian Science Monitor

"This story captures the essential role of art in documenting and interpreting history, as Lucie Kamuswekera’s tapestries preserve the painful realities of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her intricate embroidery ensures that future generations will not forget the human toll of war."

Sarah Swan
Director of Communications and Audience Engagement
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Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Very happy to see a piece I wrote for @csmonitor.bsky.social about the incredible Lucie Kamuswekera--an 80-year old embroidery artist who has documented decades of war in Congo with her needle and thread--listed among @pulitzercenter.bsky.social's selected stories for 2024. Give it a read! 👇
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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 06/12/2024
As we wrap up 2024, we are proud and excited to share a hand-picked selection of Pulitzer Center-supported stories that shaped our year. Explore our 2024 Year in Stories 👉 bit.ly/2024YISpc #PulitzerStaffPicks
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