Nice information. Since this month, we’ve the pleasure of welcoming again Benjamin Fox as our model new Africa correspondent.
Benjamin is a seasoned reporter and editor, beforehand working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has additionally been printed within the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Non-public Eye and Africa Confidential, amongst others.
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Ben was a part of the EUobserver crew between 2012 and 2015, primarily overlaying the eurozone disaster.
As a part of our push for increasing our reporting into subjects we really feel are under-reported on from an EU perspective, Ben shall be heading our protection on how EU coverage impacts nations throughout Africa — and vice-versa.
With the continent being of elevated geopolitical significance within the international recreation of affect (and assets), we’ll be reporting on the information that impacts each blocs and the implications thereof.
“It’s a fascinating time to cowl EU-Africa relations and to deliver extra African voices to our reporting,” Ben says. “The wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the Covid-19 pandemic have sped up the geopolitical competitors for relationships and affect in Africa. China is now solely one of many EU’s potential rivals on the continent. It’s fascinating to see that the EU is brokering offers on crucial uncooked supplies and providing inexperienced vitality funding to African states — this could possibly be a part of a broader supply to Africa from Brussels.”
Ben will predominantly be reporting from Nairobi, Kenya, and can also be open for pitches from (freelance) journalists throughout Africa — tales with an EU connection which may not have been picked up by European media, ideally.
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