Sally Hayden's Blog, page 2

May/June – Irish Times, BBC, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the Guardian, RTE, the Telegraph, Voice of America (selected)

‘Black Lives Matter puts focus on skin bleaching in Africa and Asia’, the Irish Times, June 23, 2020

Radio report about the challenges facing refugees in Khartoum, Sudan, during lockdown, Voice of America, June 18, 2020 (from 19.25)

‘Coronavirus: Uganda’s street children bear brunt of pandemic’, the Irish Times, June 17, 2020

Children line up to receive free meals in Gulu, northern Uganda, April 2020

‘Sex workers’ prices plummet as coronavirus leaves them without protection’, the Irish Times, June 15, 2020

, the Irish Times, June 11, 2020

‘”There is violence in the house”: children living under one of Africa’s strictest lockdowns risk abuse’, the Telegraph, June 3, 2020

‘Activist crosses Uganda on a motorbike to deliver suncream to people with albinism’, the Irish Times, June 2, 2020

On World Report from the South-Sudan/Uganda border, RTE Radio One, May 31, 2020 (from 11.50 mins in)

At a checkpoint on the border between South Sudan and Uganda, May 2020

‘Weakened by civil war, South Sudanese surrender to coronavirus’, the Irish Times, May 30, 2020

‘”I realised my body was burning”: police brutality in Uganda lockdown’, the Guardian, May 28, 2020

‘At least 10,000 died in military detention in Nigeria’, the Irish Times, May 27, 2020

‘Migrant (39) who failed to reach Europe dies in Libyan detention centre’, the Irish Times, May 25, 2020

‘Uganda women fear food shortages will make coronavirus and HIV a deadly mix’, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, May 21, 2020

‘In Uganda, radio brings together couples separated by coronavirus’, the Irish Times, May 20, 2020

‘Activists protest at coronavirus-related “hunger pandemic” in Uganda’, the Irish Times, May 18, 2020

‘Sudanese avoid hospital as coronavirus cases surge’, the Irish Times, May 17, 2020

Was on ‘Newsday’ talking about the situation for refugees in Libya, BBC World Service, May 13, 2020

‘Coronavirus: “You can risk your life as long you are doing the right thing”‘, the Irish Times, May 6, 2020 (listed in Press Gazette’s ‘best journalism of the pandemic’)

For World Press Freedom Day: ‘The stories that will never be told’, Irish Times, May 4, 2020

March/April – the Irish Times, the Guardian, RTE, ZEIT, Al Jazeera, Voice of America (selected)

‘Rwandan police chief accused of sexual assault of child refugee at UN centre’, the Guardian, April 27, 2020

‘Children, women casualties of Uganda’s coronavirus transport ban’, Al Jazeera, April 21, 2020 (I was also interviewed about this on Voice of America)

Spoke at the online conference ‘Responding to COVID-19: The Situation in Africa’, April 21, 2020

‘Ugandans sceptical as president promotes “scientific weddings”‘, the Irish Times, April 21, 2020

‘A tale of two boats: teenager missing as countries close their ports’, the Irish Times, April 19. 2020

‘South Sudan’s refugees caught between a rock and a hard place’, the Irish Times, April 15, 2020 (co-written)

‘Refugee found dead at United Nations compound in Kenya’, the Irish Times, April 14, 2020

‘”No beating!” On patrol with the Ugandan military enforcing curfew’, the Irish Times, April 13, 2020

‘Inside the smuggler’s warehouse: Africa’s 21st-century slave trade’, the Irish Times, April 11, 2020

‘Coronavirus: Ugandan president orders stop to violent policing of curfews’, the Irish Times, April 10, 2020

‘”Wir haben immer Angst”‘, ZEIT, April 9, 2020

‘The difference between Ebola and coronavirus outbreaks? Lack of resources’, the Irish Times, April 7, 2020

‘”You feel like you’re dead but you’re alive”: Libyan war reaches first anniversary’, the Irish Times, April 4, 2020

‘Alumni tales: Journalist Sally Hayden on migration, grit and staying humble’ – interviewed by Trinity News, April 3, 2020

‘Coronavirus: Ugandans prepare for a new war as clampdown takes hold’, the Irish Times, March 31, 2020

‘Coronavirus in Uganda: “Before the sickness comes to kill us we will die from hunger”‘, the Irish Times, March 29, 2020

‘World Report’ on how coronavirus is affecting Africa, RTE Radio One, March 29, 2020 (programme starts at 15 mins in)

‘Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: How rape is used as a weapon of war’, the Irish Times, March 28, 2020

‘”Sensitise to sanitise”: Bobi Wine uses song to fight coronavirus across Africa’, the Guardian, March 26, 2020 (my photo)

‘Social distancing a distant dream in Africa’s slums’, the Irish Times, March 24, 2020

Namuwongo, Kampala, March 2020

‘Libya’s refugees face being cut off from aid due to coronavirus’, the Guardian, March 24, 2020

On the Guardian’s ‘Today in Focus’ podcast talking about locusts in East Africa, March 15, 2020

‘Refugees in African camps worry about impact of coronavirus’, the Irish Times, March 14, 2020

‘Man (24) dies in fire in migrant detention centre in Libya’, the Irish Times, March 2, 2020

January/February – the Guardian, the Irish Times, New Internationalist, RTE, BBC, Sciences Po, GIJN, Foreign Policy (selected)

‘Uganda’s ‘locust commander’ leads the battle against a new enemy’, the Guardian, Feb 26, 2020

‘African climate activists fighting to be heard . . . and seen’, the Irish Times, Feb 24, 2020

‘Europe’s harsh border policies are pushing refugees all the way to Rwanda’, Foreign Policy, Feb 21, 2020

‘Police fire shots as poet cleared of cyberbullying Ugandan president’, the Irish Times, Feb 20, 2020

A radio report on the locust swarms in Kenya (programme starts 11.45), RTE Radio One World Report, Feb 16, 2020 (also featured on RTE Playback, Feb 22)

‘Busy African airport’s masked staff watch out for coronavirus’, the Irish Times, Feb 14, 2020

‘My favourite tools’, Global Investigative Journalism Network, Feb 12, 2020

‘”We are the eyes”: Volunteers take to skies to spot Mediterranean refugees’, the Irish Times, Feb 12, 2020

‘Migration policies in the Mediterranean and Libya: Roundtables on crimes, victims and the rule of international law’, Sciences Po, Feb 12, 2020

‘”It was like a cloud”: East Africa tackles worst swarms of locusts in decades’, the Irish Times, Feb 11, 2020

‘Two girls carry out deadly bombing outside northeast Nigerian mosque’, the Irish Times, Jan 27, 2020

Report on ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ about meeting Libyans fleeing Libya, BBC Radio 4, Jan 23, 2020

‘Teenage boy the latest to die in Libyan refugee detention centre’, the Guardian, Jan 21, 2020

On RTE World Report with a report about flying a mission with the Moonbird search and rescue plane in the Mediterranean Sea, Radio One, Jan 19, 2020

Talking at a Seebrücke event in Berlin about the situation in Libyan migrant detention centres, Jan 16, 2020

On the Irish Times ‘World View’ podcast speaking about Christmas on board a refugee rescue ship, Jan 14, 2020

‘Harsh awakening for refugees who risk everything to reach Malta’, the Irish Times, Jan 10, 2020

‘”They don’t help”: refugees condemn UN over failures that drove them to sea’, the Guardian, Jan 9, 2020

‘What next for child soldiers?’, the New Internationalist dispatch from DRC, Jan/Feb 2020 edition

November/December – the Irish Times, Newstalk, RTE, Al Jazeera, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NBC News, the Guardian (selected)

‘Libyans turn to deadly Mediterranean route amid escalating conflict at home’, the Irish Times, Dec 29, 2019

‘Anatomy of a rescue on the world’s deadliest migration route’, the Irish Times, Dec 27, 2019

‘Volunteers set sail on Christmas Day in hope of helping refugees’, Al Jazeera, Dec 25, 2019

‘Mayor of Palermo accuses EU of “genocide” against refugees’, the Irish Times, Dec 23, 2019

‘Christmas on the Mediterranean – a month on a migrant rescue ship’, the Irish Times, Dec 14, 2019

On board the Alan Kurdi rescue ship in Palermo port, Italy, December, 2019

‘”This is an emergency”: Bomb scare on flight dwarfed by Burundi’s crises’, the Irish Times, Dec 13, 2019

‘Flooding the new normal for a Ugandan border town’, the Irish Times, Dec 5, 2019

‘”Hide, the army’s here, they’re trying to accuse us of being witches”‘, the Irish Times, Nov 30, 2019

‘Refugees being ‘starved out’ of UN facility in Tripoli’, the Guardian, Nov 28, 2019

‘Ebola services in Congo hit as civilians attack UN base over massacres’, the Irish Times, Nov 27, 2019

‘How a prison pen pal project is helping New York teenagers’, the Irish Times, Nov 26, 2019

‘Refugees evacuated from Libya find transit haven in Rwanda’, the Irish Times, Nov 25, 2019

‘U.N. refugee organization reopens corruption probe after NBC News report’, NBC News/100Reporters, Nov 24, 2019 (also on Euronews)

Winner of the “journalism excellence” award at the Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Awards, Nov 16, 2019

Winner of the best “foreign coverage” award at the Newsbrands Irish Journalism Awards, Nov 14, 2019

Speaking at Trinity College, Dublin & TU Dublin, Nov 13, 2019

Speaking at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in NUI Galway, Nov 12, 2019

Interviewed by Miriam O’Callaghan on Today with Sean O’Rourke, RTE Radio One, Nov 12, 2019

Interviewed on the Pat Kenny Show about refugees being returned to Libya, Newstalk, Nov 11, 2019

‘EU actively supporting return of refugees to certain danger’, the Irish Times, Nov 4, 2019