- Sudarsan Raghavan
- Correspondent
Sudarsan Raghavan is The Washington Post’s Africa bureau chief. Previously, he was based in Madrid and reported from the Middle East and Europe. From August 2006 to April 2009, he covered the Iraq war and was The Post’s Baghdad bureau chief. He joined the paper in 2005 after working at Knight Ridder, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Newsweek. Raghavan has reported from more than 50 countries and 20 conflict zones on five continents. His professional honors include the George Polk Award, three Overseas Press Club Awards and the Livingston Award for international reporting. This is his third posting in Africa.
In Nigeria’s north, a militia aims to mold schools through violence
Islamist fighters gun down teachers and students in broad daylight, and classrooms become ghost towns.
After jihadists fled, Timbuktu’s slaves taste freedom
The rule of the jihadists shined a spotlight on Northern Mali’s modern-day slavery.
Nigerian Islamist militants return from Mali with weapons, skills
Boko Haram presses campaign to install ultraconservative brand of Islam as militancy spreads.
The secret operation that
saved Timbuktu’s heritage
An unlikely cast of characters rescued the ancient city’s treasured manuscripts from jihadists.
- In Timbuktu, conflict shatters a city’s soul
- Hunt for Joseph Kony, elusive African warlord, is halted
- New apps transforming remote parts of Africa
- Kenya’s Supreme Court upholds presidential vote
- Car bomb in Somalia’s capital kills 10
- Kenyatta wins Kenya presidential election by narrow margin
- Kenyatta wins Kenya presidential election by narrow margin
- Tensions rise in Kenyan election
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