Based in Kampala, Uganda, Lydia is Africa editor for openDemocracy’s 50.50 team. An investigative and data journalist and editor, she is particularly interested in African feminist movement building and the continent’s ebbing democracy. She has worked as a freelance editor, reporter, data consultant and documentary producer for a variety of news organisations in Africa and internationally, including Al Jazeera, the BBC, The Continent, The New York Times, Quartz Africa and Reuters. Follow her on Twitter (@namlyd). Contact her at: [email protected]
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationVacío legal en EEUU permite donaciones secretas de 272 millones de dólares a grupos de ultraderecha
Exclusivo: Una investigación de nueve meses realizada por openDemocracy expone el flujo opaco de dinero a grupos...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationCharity loophole lets US donors give far-right groups $272m in secret
Exclusive: Nine-month investigation reveals opaque flow of cash to groups including Alliance Defending Freedom
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisWhat might the US be like post-Roe v Wade? Look at present-day Nigeria
In Nigeria, which has the world's second-highest maternal death rate, abortions carry jail terms of up to 14 years
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Published in: 50.50: NewsHomophobic petition defending PSG footballer is pulled – after 50,000 sign
The petition for Idrissa Gueye, who opted out of an anti-homophobia match in France, is deemed ‘hate speech’
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureThe media disinformation campaign against Ghana’s queer community
Ghanaian journalists are driving an anti-LGBTIQ campaign that could result in one of the world’s harshest homophobic laws
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationHospitals across East Africa offer controversial anti-gay counselling
Six-month openDemocracy investigation reveals ‘degrading and discriminatory’ treatment at health centres in Kenya,...
