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Ashley Lime

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Kenya, Nairobi
As seen in: BBC News, Época Negócios, G1 Globo, MSN, UOL, Yahoo Life, BBC, Terra, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News, Yahoo News Australia and
Covers:  Women, children and education, health, LGBTQ+, sexual abuse, conflict
BBC journalist. Ex-reporter @stltoday. Copy editor. Women In News Fellow. Alfred Friendly Fellow. Music lover. Globetrotter 🇺🇸🇶🇦🇬🇧🇳🇬 🇪🇹 🇬🇭 🇧🇯 🇰🇪

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Ashley Lime is a digital broadcast journalist at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Ashley has more than 10 years of experience in the media industry, having worked as a reporter, copy editor and broadcast journalist across both local and international media, covering subjects such as health, education and human-interest stories. She is also a 2017 Alfred Friendly fellow and a 2018 Women in News (WIN - WAN IFRA) fellow.

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Why are Kenyan students setting their schools on fire?

Why are Kenyan students setting their schools on fire?

Some Kenyan students blame intensified curriculum for the spike in numbers of boarding school fires.

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Congo health teams on mission to save children from deadly measles outbreak

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By Ashley Lime Verified
| Zawya Verified
The moment Julie Kanjinga laid her eyes on 17-month-old Marina, she had flashbacks of haunting memories from 15 years as a nurse in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Her memory took her back to 2022, when five children, three girls and two boys, were brought to Promesse Health Centre, the health facility she runs in Kipushi in Haut-Katanga Province. They showed classical signs of measles, one of the most contagious diseases in the world.
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Congo health teams on mission to save children from deadly measles outbreak

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By Ashley Lime Verified
| zurl.co
The moment Julie Kanjinga laid her eyes on 17-month-old Marina, she had flashbacks of haunting memories from 15 years as a nurse in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Her memory took her back to 2022, when five children, three girls and two boys, were brought to Promesse Health Centre, the health facility she runs in Kipushi in Haut-Katanga Province. They showed classical signs of measles, one of the most contagious diseases in the world.
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Why Africa bears heaviest burden of 2.3 million newborns who die yearly

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By Ashley Lime Verified
| zurl.co
At the Mother and Child Hospital in Makueni County in Kenya, nurse Lois Nzilani calls a colleague on the phone, impatiently asking questions about a baby she and a team of nurses are expecting to be brought in by an ambulance from another facility “Is the baby warm? Are you sure? Check again. Have you have checked?” Ms Nzilani asks. The baby is preterm— born before its time— and not fully developed, so it cannot regulate its body’s temperature and would die of cold.
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Jodi Kantor

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Telescope