Alex Whiting
Alex Whiting joined the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s editorial team in July 2005, focusing on conflicts and humanitarian crises, women's rights and corruption. Before that she was assistant editor of Panos Features and correspondent of Gemini News Service, specialising in trade, aid and development. She began her career making TV documentaries for the BBC and Britain's Channel 4. She has an MA in Middle Eastern studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
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Safe sex texts gone wrong in Uganda?
By Alex WhitingFree sex information service in Uganda fails to curb risky behaviour, researchers find
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English mosque responds to hostility with tea and biscuits
By Alex WhitingMosque worshippers calm protesters, win praise for conflict resolution English-style
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Watch out for "dangerous" jargon in conflict reports
By alex-whitingExpert Phil Vernon writes down a checklist of words used by peacebuilders that are often a sign of lazy thinking and poor analysis of a conflict and can therefore lead to poor responses
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What can end conflict in Congo's east?
By Alex WhitingInternational Alert says efforts to build peace have misdiagnosed the causes of the violence
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"Aid marketing I'd love to see"
By Alex WhitingBlog by a humanitarian aid worker
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Dont forget Djibouti in Horn of Africa crisis - report
By Alex WhitingTiny Djibouti is in its fourth year of drought
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Patients, workers, agencies shocked at MSF Somalia pullout
By Abdalle Ahmed and Alex Whiting | Thu, 22 Aug 2013
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By Alex Whiting | Wed, 14 Aug 2013
INFOGRAPHIC: How is Syria’s civil war impacting the region?
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By Alex Whiting | Tue, 13 Aug 2013
Syria's war: a regional conflict?
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New U.N. brigade raises hopes, fears for peace in Congo
By Alex Whiting | Thu, 1 Aug 2013
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Central African Republic in crisis, urgently needs aid –MSF
By Alex Whiting | Tue, 9 Jul 2013
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War and communities: artist reveals people’s war stories
By Alex Whiting | Thu, 27 Jun 2013
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Donors must find new ways to reach Syrians in need – report
By Alex Whiting | Fri, 26 Apr 2013
Syrians relieved, disappointed at Obama strike delay
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A young boy stands at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, a day after the bombing
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Local activists and Syrian-American supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad protest in Time Square, New York
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Truck drivers and passengers remain stranded on a flooded road at the border of Uganda and South Sudan
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A man rows a boat in the flooded waters of river Ganges
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SNAPSHOT-Syria crisis at 02:20 PM ET/0620 GMT
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Taliban target U.S. army base in Afghanistan, attack ongoing
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Japan PM pledges speedy, comprehensive Fukushima moves
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Japan aims to present steps on Fukushima water problem on Tuesday
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Japan reiterates may consider discharging radiated Fukushima water into ocean
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SNAPSHOT-Syria crisis at 10:20 PM ET/0220 GMT
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Wildfire grows to California's 4th largest as crews make progress
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Florida college band marches for first time since hazing death
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Bigger and healthier: European men grow 11cm in a century
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SNAPSHOT-Syria crisis at 7 PM ET/2300 GMT
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Syria vote complicates U.S. fiscal debate; stop-gap more likely
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EXCLUSIVE-USS Nimitz carrier group rerouted for possible help with Syria
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Life expectancy gap growing between rich/poor world women - WHO
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Obama and aides confront skeptical Congress on Syria strike
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Egypt sends Mursi to trial as new constitution advances
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INSIGHT-India's crisis within a crisis; finance minister fights on two fronts
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TV confessions in China an unsettling new trend for executives
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Arab states urge action against Syrian government
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China's hardline ex-security chief: praised by party, reviled by activists
