Declan Walsh

An immense honor to be awarded the @PulitzerPrizes for our work on Sudan. pulitzer.org/node/declan-wa…

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How Russia set up a spy shop in Japan to steal tech for its war in Ukraine. Banger investigation into Russia's "20th Directorate" & its boss in Japan, who poses as an Aeroflot employee. By the masters @jane__bradley @mschwirtz & Adam Goldman nytimes.com/2026/07/12/wor…

In Sudan, the brutal RSF militia is besieging the city of El Obeid. It may be repeating its siege last year of El Fasher where it slaughtered 60,000 people. World leaders warn of mass atrocities but won't name the country behind this mass murder and mass rape. So I will: It's the UAE. Neither the Biden nor Trump administration was willing to offend the UAE by holding it accountable for what Washington described as the genocide unfolding in Sudan. Trump, whose family is enriched by business dealings with the UAE, is silent. So the slaughter continues. The UAE even has a candidate for UN Secretary General, and people are too polite to point out that a country empowering mass atrocities might not be ideal for that role. I write: "We should have the fortitude to speak up about human rights outrages whether the responsible party is Russia, China, Israel, America or the Emirates; if you care about human rights in only some places, you don’t actually care about human rights." A gift link to the column: nytimes.com/2026/07/11/opi… Thoughts?

An American working for the evangelical aid group Samaritan's Purse has tested positive for Ebola in the Congolese city of Bunia. w/ @johnjyoon nytimes.com/2026/07/11/wor…

Myself and Adam Tooze giving the key note speech at Berlin's Reflexes & Reflections next month. Come along if you are in town. berlinerfestspiele.de/en/reflexe-und…

Patients with the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola have started receiving experimental treatments in a clinical trial that aims to improve care for the rare viral disease, which has killed more than 500 people in Congo bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

New US Sudan related sanctions announced last week *still* fail to target the UAE-based company -- Global Security Services Group -- apparently hiring the Colombian fighters sent to support the RSF. Why keep cutting off tentacles if youre not going to target the heart of the operation: UAE linked entities & individuals. home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…

Once they were farmers, painters and gold miners. Now they are on the hard edge of an Ebola outbreak that some fear could become the largest ever. We followed a team of brave Congolese volunteers risking their lives to save their community. nytimes.com/2026/06/27/wor…

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The notes reflect my reading before and after we record ..

How gold is driving the spread of Ebola. Photos by @ArletteBashizi nytimes.com/2026/06/05/wor…

@MishalHusain Thank you Mishal

The reporting from DRC by @declanwalsh has been outstanding. It features in my conversation with Ebola pioneer Peter Piot, coming Friday. He had read the piece I quoted to him

A death at the epicenter of Ebola: nytimes.com/video/world/af…

Why the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has proven so hard to stop — I spoke with @Nataliekitro for The Daily. nytimes.com/2026/06/03/pod…

Bienfaits is the eighth staff member from Mongbwalu General Hospital to die from suspected Ebola in this outbreak.

Tragically, his doctor told me, Bienfaits fled the ward after we met him last week, seeking help from a traditional healer. When that failed, he returned to the hospital in recent days when his condition had significantly worsened, and he was in the last stages of Ebola.

Great and tragic news at once. Emmanuel, the 5-year old featured in this report, has since recovered and left the Ebola ward, his father told me. But the lab technician I met in the next ward deteriorated and died last night. His name was Bienfaits. nytimes.com/video/world/af…