An Update from Neha Wadekar

I was a 2016 OPC Foundation winner for the Reuters award, placed in Nairobi. I’ve been working independently since then, covering stories across Africa, but also in the Middle East. I reported on the war in Yemen in 2018 for the New York Times and the Washington Post. I also covered a resource-driven Islamic insurgency in Mozambique for PBS NewsHour and The Guardian. My reporting on Mozambique earned me the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting’s Breakthrough Journalism Award. Last year, I investigated serial sex abuse in Kenyan schools started by an American couple and funded by the World Bank, Gates Foundation, and Zuckerberg-Chan foundation, among others. This reporting, co-authored by Ryan Grim and published in The Intercept, has upended the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, and has caught the attention of high profile American politicians.