Before Tortoise, Will Brown worked as the Telegraph’s Africa Bureau Chief in Nairobi, the Economist’s West Africa Correspondent in Dakar and a freelance journalist in New Delhi. In 2020, he won Young Journalist of the Year at the Press Awards for his work on conflicts in the Sahel, Ethiopia and DR Congo. In 2021, he was awarded “Outstanding Investigative Reporting” by the Fetisov Journalism Awards for a series of articles exposing how hundreds of African migrants had been chained, starved or left to die in Saudi Arabia’s covid detention centres. He is also a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC.
Will Brown
Senior Reporter
“To make ends meet in the digital age, many media outlets are turning to sensationalised clickbait and comment articles designed to outrage and polarise. Tortoise is breaking through that noise, offering rigorous, quality reporting that takes a story the extra mile.”
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Monday 20 March 2023
Sensemaker: Moscow rules
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Thursday 2 March 2023
Sensemaker: Nigerian crossroads
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Thursday 27 October 2022
Sensemaker: Scramble 2.0
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Monday 20 March 2023
Detained in Modi’s India: A British citizen’s story
For five years a British citizen has been locked up in an Indian prison, and the British state hasn’t been willing – or not strong enough – to stand up for him
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Monday 20 February 2023
Wagner’s war: A year in Ukraine and beyond
First they were known as the “little green men”, an anonymous private Russian force appearing first in Crimea, then Syria, then in central Africa. Now, they are on the frontline of Putin’s war in Ukraine. Just how powerful is the Wagner Group and their increasingly vocal founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin?