Simone Schlindwein

Simone Schlindwein: Born in 1980; Eastern European studies from 2006-2008; Moscow correspondent for Der Spiegel. Based in Uganda since 2008 she has been a correspondent for the German daily tageszeitung (taz) from the Great Lakes region: DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Central African Republic, South Sudan. Won the 2016 journalism award 'Der lange Atem' for her research into the Rwandan Hutu militia FDLR in DR Congo and Germany and her resulting book 'Tatort Kongo - Prozess in Deutschland.'...See more

Simone Schlindwein: Born in 1980; Eastern European studies from 2006-2008; Moscow correspondent for Der Spiegel. Based in Uganda since 2008 she has been a correspondent for the German daily tageszeitung (taz) from the Great Lakes region: DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Central African Republic, South Sudan. Won the 2016 journalism award 'Der lange Atem' for her research into the Rwandan Hutu militia FDLR in DR Congo and Germany and her resulting book 'Tatort Kongo - Prozess in Deutschland.' In 2017 she won the media project award together with Christian Jakob and Daniél Kretschmar from the Otto Brenner Foundation for the Migration Control research project, on which this book is based. See less