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Rwanda: BBC Journalist Mark Doyle Who Reported On Genocide Against the Tutsi Dies At 67
Colleagues hailed Doyle’s conflict reporting in Africa, where his coverage of Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia won awards and was credited with saving lives.
- Veteran BBC Africa correspondent Mark Doyle died on Tuesday, September 22, at age 67 following a short illness. The British journalist was best known for reporting on conflicts across Africa throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
- Joining the BBC in 1986, Doyle became East Africa correspondent in 1993 and covered the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. He was briefly the only foreign journalist in Rwanda as the crisis claimed over one million lives.
- Senegalese UN peacekeeper Capt Mbaye Diagne saved Doyle's life at an Interahamwe-manned roadblock in Nyamirambo during the 1994 violence. Doyle later detailed the horror in a 2014 article tribute to the peacekeeper.
- As West Africa correspondent from 1997 to 2002, Doyle covered Sierra Leone's civil war and post-war Liberia. Sir David Richards claimed Doyle's reporting helped convince the British government to intervene, saving thousands of Sierra Leonean lives.
- BBC foreign editor Paul Danahar called Doyle a "legendary figure" and "brilliant, brave, empathetic reporter." Colleague Fergal Keane praised his dedication, saying, "He stayed longer than any of us," during their time in Rwanda.
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right3Center3Last UpdatedBias Distribution34% Left, 33% Center, 33% Right
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- 34% of the sources lean Left, 33% of the sources are Center, 33% of the sources lean Right
34% Left
L 34%
C 33%
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