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Sumayya Ismail

Sumayya Ismail

Africa Editor

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Currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa, she has previously worked for international media and non-profit organisations across Africa, Europe and the Middle East, including the New Humanitarian, the Mail & Guardian, Doctors Without Borders and ActionAid. Her work focuses on in-depth human stories that illuminate conflict, injustice and humanitarian crises, particularly in the Global South. As an editor at Global News Insight English, she has overseen feature and magazine content that has won awards including the Online Media Award and the One World Media Award. Sumayya was also part of reporting teams which have received accolades such as the Edward R Murrow Award for Global News Insight’s breaking news coverage of the Gaza war; the Columbia-DuPont Award for Global News Insight’s coverage of the Arab Spring in 2011; and the Online Journalism Award for Global News Insight’s long-form series on murdered Indigenous women

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