Mark Doyle

Mark Doyle "is an internationally acclaimed journalist who joined the BBC in 1986 and went on to become the East Africa Correspondent from 1993 to 1994 and West Africa Correspondent from 1997 to 2002. He covered the Rwandan genocide extensively for TV and radio in 1994 and was often the only foreign correspondent in the capital Kigali. He also covered the West African wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea throughout the late 1990s. Mr. Doyle is currently a BBC World Affairs Correspondent. In 2004 he was awarded first prize in the United Nations Correspondents Association UN Foundation Awards (Reporting on Humanitarian and Developmental Affairs category) for his coverage of post-war Liberia."