Dakar, Senegal
2 reviews$450 - $800 / Day
Sira is a journalist, shooting producer DP, camerawoman and photographer based in Dakar, Senegal, covering West Africa and beyond. She has over five years’ experience working for international news organisations across two dozen countries, including in hostile environments. Prior to moving to West Africa, Sira worked as a staff foreign news producer and video journalist for BBC bureaux around the world, including in Brussels, Nairobi and Kyiv where she produced breaking news and investigations for the BBC’s flagship TV, radio and digital programmes. She’s worked at the frontlines of the war in Ukraine, covered the famine in Madagascar and has led investigations that were quoted by the UN Security Council, brought to the British High Court and been shortlisted for prestigious awards. Her work focuses on documenting climate change, migration, humanitarian crises, human interest and conflict across West Africa. Sira is HEFAT-trained and fluent in English, French, German and Dutch. She holds a master’s degree in International Security and Journalism from Sciences Po Paris and is currently a fellow of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network.
With commercial trawlers taking their livelihoods, hundreds of West Africans try to cross the Atlantic to reach Europe every year. It's a dangerous journey. DW's Sira Thierij reports from Senegal, as some prepare for their next attempt to come to Spain.
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More than 400 undocumented migrants are on hunger strike in the Belgian capital Brussels. Many of them have lived in the country for years and want to become legal residents, which would allow them to work officially.
Each of the almost four million refugees who have fled Ukraine has their own story, the threads of their past lives, their escape routes and their current places of shelter all interwoven. This family found shelter in a Carpathian monastery in north-east Romania – living amongst monks, until one day they can return home to Kharkiv in Ukraine.
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Before and during the European elections, I worked as an editor and presenter for "Europe to go" – a daily news magazine published by French-German broadcaster ARTE. This clip is only available in German.
Deb Haaland is hoping to become the first Native American woman in Congress. She’s running for the Democrats in the state of New Mexico and wants to change the face of US politics to take a stand against US President Donald Trump.
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