Madrid, Spain
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Request QuoteMikel Konate (Spain, 1982) is an award-winning independent video and photo-journalist currently based in Madrid and working worldwide. Konate has been involved in the media industry for 20 years and began working as a video-journalist in 2005 for local Spanish outlets covering political issues, social movements, and breaking news. In 2014 Konate began working internationally for news agencies, media, NGO’s and audiovisual production companies. He has been awarded the Rory Peck Trust Award for News in 2018 for his coverage in the Central Mediterranean and was nominated again in 2019 in the for his coverage in Northern Syria. Konate has worked worldwide with Reuters, The Associated Press, CNN, BBC, Euronews, ABC, The Independent, UNHCR or MSF (selected). He collaborate regularly in documentaries for the BBC and ABC, he film for FRONTLINE (PBS) the documentary "Leaving Afghanistan" back in 2020.
FRONTLINE investigates the consequences of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. With exclusive access to a militant wing of the Taliban, correspondent Najibullah Quraishi tells the story of Iran’s growing influence across Afghanistan.
On the eve of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the propaganda war being waged by President Putin has become more extreme. Russian citizens are being repeatedly told that Ukraine is being run by LGBT Nazis and President Vlodomyr Zelensky is a drug addict and a sexual pervert. Independent Russian journalists forced to flee the country have found sanctuary in neighbouring Latvia where they are now broadcasting factual news about the war into their former homeland via YouTube.
Captagon is a highly addictive drug that has ravaged the Middle East in recent years. Now a joint investigation by BBC News Arabic with investigative journalism network, OCCRP, has discovered new direct links between this multi-billion dollar drug trade and leading members of the Syrian Armed Forces and President Bashar al-Assad's family.
Whether you’re aware of it or not, there has been a seismic shift in the goals of modern European firefighting. Strange as it may seem, the aim “is not to eliminate fire, because it is part of the natural dynamics of ecosystems, but to make fires less dangerous,” said Professor Fernando Pulido, director of the Dehesa Research Institute at the University of Extremadura. “Even with many resources, you cannot do complete fire prevention,” he added.
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