Mark Townsend
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Senior reporter at the Guardian covering global development and human rights. DM's open. [email protected]
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So grateful to Sonja J Miley & Maddy Crowther at Waging Peace š§” for speaking to us about the conflict & their work with refugees & to Mark Townsend for sharing his insight into his recent trip to Chad. Read his article here: google.com/amp/s/amp.thegā¦
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The latest conflict has plunged Sudan into 'one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history'.
We speak to Mark Townsend, a senior global development reporter at the The Guardian on what he's seen.
We also speak to the Co-Directors at Waging Peace š§”
Middle East thrust into āapocalypticā humanitarian crisis.
Powerful reporting by Mark Townsend for The Guardian on how war in the region, particularly in #Gaza , is putting unprecedented pressures on aid agencies to reach those in need of assistance.
theguardian.com/global-developā¦
Amid quite a lot of misleading both-sidesy commentary and coverage of the Armistice Day disorder, todayās First Edition with Mark Townsend goes through what we know about who was responsible. (By an overwhelming and unambiguous margin, the far right.)
theguardian.com/world/2023/novā¦
New government definition of extremism drawn includes āunderminingā UK values - huge threat to freedom of expression. Great work by Jon Ungoed-Thomas theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nā¦
Excellent, rigorous The Guardianā© investigative reporting of how #refugee distress calls were downgraded as a matter of UK policy before mass Channel drowning by ā¦ā¦Aaron Walawalkarā© ā¦Harriet Clugstonā© ā¦Mark Townsendā© theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nā¦
Mark Townsend An interactive graphic in the version of the story on our website allows you to explore the movements of search and rescue units in the English Channel relation to these downgraded reports of 'migrant vessels'.
libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/channā¦
Revealed: UK coastguard downgraded 999 calls from refugees in small boats just days before mass drowning. Latest with Liberty Investigates theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nā¦