Nita Bhalla

South Asia Correspondent


Nita Bhalla covers disasters and conflicts, development, womens rights, climate change and governance. She is a former Reuters political and general news correspondent and has worked in India, east and southern Africa and the Indian Ocean region. Nita started her career in 1999 with the BBC in Ethiopia.

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Spate of attacks, arrests puts LGBT+ groups on alert in Cameroon
Anti-gay uproar after Ghana opens its first LGBT+ community centre
Ebola outbreaks in Guinea, DR Congo pose regional risks
Ten facts about FGM, an ancient practice that mutilates girls
COVID-19 creates 'fertile ground' for FGM in Africa
10 facts about Neglected Tropical Diseases
Amid pandemic, Nigeria battles to end a painful blinding disease
How an election internet blackout hit poor Ugandans
Ugandans lose voice, digital rights in pre-election blackout
U.N. urges respect for LGBT+ Ugandans ahead of polls
Anti-gay rhetoric ramps up fear among Ugandans ahead of polls
How COVID-19 could see a million African deaths from other disease
Fresh wave of crop-ravaging locusts threaten E. African herders
Kenyan women win damages for sexual violence during poll violence
Ending the stigma: African women pin hopes on anti-HIV jab
Tanzanian ban on pregnant school girls challenged in African court
Kenya makes hospital arrests as it probes child trafficking ring
Biden rekindles American Dream for Africa's LGBT+ refugees