Kevin Sieff is an American journalist who became the ''

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'''s Latin America Correspondent in 2018. He was previously Africa bureau chief between 2014 and 2018. Before that, he was the paper's Kabul bureau chief for three years.

Life and career

He attended Brown University and the

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., United States, with campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China. It is consistently ranked one of th ...

. Previously, he was a reporter for the ''

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'' based in Washington D.C. He has also written for ''The Guardian''. In 2013, he was a finalist for the Livingston Award for
Field of Danger
" which exposed the danger to civilians posed by a U.S. firing range in Afghanistan. In 2016, he was a finalist for the Livingston Award for
series
on the migrant route from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe.

References

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