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Ismail Einashe’s Biography

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Ismail Einashe is an award-winning journalist and writer. He has written for BBC News, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Foreign Policy, and The Nation, among many others. He is a member of Lost in Europe, a cross-border journalism project that investigates the disappearance of child migrants in Europe. In 2021, he won the inaugural Investigative Journalism for the EU (IJ4EU) Impact Award as part of the Lost in Europe team. In 2019, he won a Migration Media Award and in 2020 he was shortlisted fo…

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Grenfell: six months on

Grenfell: six months on

Six months after the Grenfell fire, Ismail Einashe, who grew up on a similar London estate, reveals the heart…

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The Bangladeshi shopkeepers who took on Sicily's Cosa Nostra mafia - European Press Prize

The Bangladeshi shopkeepers who took on Sicily's Cosa Nostra mafia - European Press Prize

Bangladeshi shopkeepers suffered years of threats and extortion in Palermo. Then they stood up to the gangste…

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For Somaliland and Djibouti, Will New Friends Bring Benefits?

For Somaliland and Djibouti, Will New Friends Bring Benefits?

Interest in the Horn of Africa from foreign powers has always been a double-edged sword

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Sicily's rich olive pickings - the fruit of Italy's migrant exploitation

Sicily's rich olive pickings - the fruit of Italy's migrant exploitation

Ismail Einashe meets olive pickers from Africa living in squalor and working for gangmasters for little pay i…

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The African migrants who Italy accuses of people smuggling

The African migrants who Italy accuses of people smuggling

Ismail Einashe meets a young Senegalese man who was accused of people smuggling soon after he survived crossi…

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Nearly 17 child migrants a day vanished in Europe since 2018

Nearly 17 child migrants a day vanished in Europe since 2018

Investigation finds one in six were solo and under 15, as experts say cross-border cooperation ‘nonexistent’

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A moment that changed me: I arrived in London as a child refugee - and discovered a strange new world

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Ismail Einashe (right), with his history teacher at South Camden community school, in about 2000.Photograph: Courtesy of Ismail Einashe A few days after Christmas 1994, aged 10, I arrived in London as a refugee from Somalia. At Heathrow airport, I stood staring in awe at the escalators. I had heard about these “walking machines” from an elderly Somali woman in Addis Ababa who sat on a corner selling sweets, biscuits and cold Fanta in glass bottles.
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Artists imagine a new utopia for Kenya's capital

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[Kairos Futura] Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has long been known as “the green city in the sun” because of its mix of forest and grasslands among the urban sprawl, but it all depends on where you are viewing it from. Seen from one of the city’s comfortable apartment blocks or homes, then yes, perhaps – from one of its densely packed slums, then no. There, life can be characterised by poverty and ecological disaster, such as flooding and deadly landslides.
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Toiling on a Kenyan flower farm to send fresh roses to Europe

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September 25, 2024 at 7:51 PM [Kate Stanworth ] On a moonless night in the Kenyan lakeside town of Naivasha, Anne sits inside a makeshift, two-room house, exhausted after a gruelling shift picking and sorting roses.
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