Nellie Peyton

West Africa Correspondent


Nellie Peyton is the former West Africa Correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, based in Dakar. She reported on humanitarian affairs including conflict, disasters and human rights covering countries from Mauritania to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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UK lawmakers hear more reports of aid worker sex abuse in Congo
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