Autor: Christian Jakob

Born in 1980, she studied East European studies, from 2006 to 2008. She was Moscow correspondent for the Spiegel, but since 2008 she has been living in Uganda and is the correspondent of the German “tageszeitung” (taz.de) for the Great Lakes region: DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Central African Republic, South Sudan. In 2016 she was awarded the journalists” prize “Die lange Atem” for research on the Rwandan Hutu militia FDLR in DRC and the corresponding book “Crime Scene Congo – Trial in Germany”. Together with Christian Jakob and Deniél Kretschmar of the German Otto Brenner Foundation, she was awarded the Media Project Prize in 2017 for the migration project “Migration Control”, on whose research t Dictators as Gatekeepers for Europe: Outsourcing EU border controls to Africa is based. http://simoneschlindwein.blogspot.de/