Based in London, UK, she writes live news, explainers and features with a particular focus on grassroots movements, migration and climate change. Edna previously reported live news for the Guardian during the COVID-19 global pandemic. She has also worked for ITV’s current affairs programme, Tonight, where she contributed to several stories including on the people who took the first trains out of the eastern regions of Ukraine shortly after the Russian invasion in 2022. Edna was a member of aljazeera.com’s live news team which won an Edward R Murrow award in 2025 for its coverage of the December 2024 fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. She has also reported on significant news events including the Russian elections in 2024 and the Russia-Ukraine war as a member of aljazeera.com’s Europe desk.