Robbie Corey-Boulet, Author at Institute of Current World Affairs

Robbie Corey-Boulet is West and Central Africa bureau chief for Reuters based in Dakar, Senegal—where he manages a team covering 23 countries—and author of Love Falls on Us: A Story of American Ideas and African LGBT Lives. Previously, he was Riyadh bureau chief for Agence France Presse. He began his reporting career covering the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia, and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s from Brown University.

ICWA Dispatches by Robbie Corey-Boulet

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Publications by Robbie Corey-Boulet

AFP: Robbie Corey-Boulet on a stricken Yemeni tanker
"'Risk is high': ship arrives to pump oil from Yemen tanker," by Robbie Corey-Boulet (West Africa, 2014-2016), Agence France Press, July 16, 2023
AFP: Robbie Corey-Boulet on marriage in Ukraine
Basement Bickering: Marriages Under Strain in War-Hit Ukraine, by Robbie Corey-Boulet (West Africa, 2014-2016), Agence France Press, January 9, 2023
Robbie Corey-Boulet wins NLGJA book prize
Acclaim for former ICWA fellow's book Love Falls on Us: A Story of American Ideas and African LGBT Lives.
AFP: Robbie Corey-Boulet on damming the Nile
As power-starved Ethiopia strives to finish the largest hydropower plant in Africa, tensions with downstream neighbors are rising.
AFP: Robbie Corey-Boulet on Ethiopia’s border troubles
Residents in both Ethiopia and Eritrea complain of a lack of progress on demarcating their shared border despite a much-lauded peace deal, ICWA fellow Robbie Corey-Boulet (Ivory Coast and Cameroon, 2013-2015) reports for Agence France Presse. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end hostilities, but locals say they don't see the peace.