West Africa Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Ruth Maclean
Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, based in Senegal. She joined The Times in 2019 after three and a half years covering West Africa for The Guardian, reporting on the chocolate industry’s devastation of the rainforests in Ivory Coast, the government’s cover-up of a rape crisis in the Democ
ratic Republic of Congo and tensions between herders and farmers in the highlands of Nigeria. She grew up in southern and East Africa and, as a reporter, was based in Mexico City, London and Johannesburg before moving to Dakar.
ratic Republic of Congo and tensions between herders and farmers in the highlands of Nigeria. She grew up in southern and East Africa and, as a reporter, was based in Mexico City, London and Johannesburg before moving to Dakar.
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