Abdi Latif Dahir

For a year, my colleague @ScheckNYTimes and I looked into why domestic workers from across East Africa, who are promised jobs and a better life in Saudi Arabia, continued to face abuse, starvation and death. Here's what we found. nytimes.com/2025/03/16/wor…

Encouraging. #Syria jumped 36 places on the Press Freedom Index in the past year — the single biggest climb on record. It now stands higher than most of its regional neighbors — #Saudi, #Bahrain, #Egypt, #Yemen, #Turkey, #Iraq, #Sudan, #UAE, #Palestine, #Algeria & #Jordan.

UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2026 awarded to the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate unes.co/1ctvpg

When the war in Sudan began, I spoke with Hamid often. One memory that stays with me is how he and his family woke early on Eid day (April 21, 2023) to bake cookies, trying to restore some normalcy to the day — only to abandon it as fighting resumed in Khartoum. Allah yarhamhu!

Kenya's Sabastian Sawe has been awarded 8m Kenya shillings ($62,000; £46,000) for breaking the marathon record and getting a gold medal. He also received a vehicle number plate 01:59:30 - his official record time. bbc.in/4eCuaXh

As wars rage across the Middle East, content creators and influencers from the region are turning out edgy material on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube to cope with the conflicts and bring levity to a pain that often feels too raw. My latest piece. nytimes.com/2026/04/29/wor…

When a ship comes under fire in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the first places its distress call is likely to be heard is thousands of miles away, on a military base outside Portsmouth, on the south coast of Britain. nytimes.com/2026/04/28/wor…

Wounded Lebanese journalist Zeinab Faraj recounts hours of agony when Israeli strike killed colleague Amal Khalil apnews.com/article/lebano…

HISTORIC MOMENT Sebastian Sawe of kenya breaking Sub2 in men’s marathon

1:59:30. Humanity just got faster. Powered by Adizero. #YouGotThis

“What cease-fire are you talking about?” said Kamil Mohamed Mansour, who fled the village of Tallouseh in southern Lebanon, and who said he lost his home, savings and farmland. “I have lost everything and am sitting here alone.” nytimes.com/2026/04/25/wor…

In Lebanon, the rare ambassadorial-level talks with Israel in Washington have been received with a mix of anger, unease and faint hope. My report from Beirut. nytimes.com/2026/04/23/wor…

اســ..تش.. هاد الزميلة آمال خليل أثناء قيامها بواجبها الصحافي والمهني في الجنوب، رحلت وهي على رأس عملها

#Lebanon: CPJ is outraged that the IDF apparently targeted Lebanese journalists Amal Khalil and Zeinab Faraj in Al Tayri, southern Lebanon, on Wednesday, and warns that the continued Israeli obstruction of rescue efforts may amount to a war crime. cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-ca…

Early last month, Shihab-Eldin was arrested in Kuwait on the basis of what CPJ calls “vague and overly broad accusations.” I’ve known him to be a reporter who is quick and elegant and resists euphemism, writes @AidaAlami. cjr.org/analysis/waiti…

A statement from the faculty of Columbia Journalism School calling for the immediate release of Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, '07 M.S.: journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-state… 📷: Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom)

CPJ calls on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, detained under new security and fake news laws. Journalism is not a crime. Read more: cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-ca… #freeahmed #FreeAhmedEldin #journalismisnotacrime

In its latest war with Israel, Hezbollah has defied notions that it was crippled. How did the militant group reorganize? What is the status of its stockpile? And how are its units operating in southern Lebanon? My latest piece answers these questions. nytimes.com/2026/04/11/wor…

One of the most important US-based commercial satellite imagery providers on whom most media outlets rely says the government has asked all imagery providers to indefinitely withhold satellite images from the Iran war

Breaking News: Shelly Kittleson, an American journalist who was abducted in Iraq by a militia allied with Iran, was freed after a week in captivity. nyti.ms/4vfYhcB

NEW: On the first day of the war with Iran, the United States used a new ballistic missile. It was untested in combat. Our analysis shows it struck a sports hall, an elementary school, and residential areas — killing at least 21 people, including children. w/ @johnismay