Anjan Sundaram

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Author of “Breakup” (out now!), “Stringer” and “Bad News” | PhD in Journalism | Math at Yale

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Meet our planet's hidden defenders

Aug 23, 2024 | ted.com | Anjan Sundaram

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Congo Explainer

Feb 19, 2024 | chronicleonline.com | Anjan Sundaram

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Congo Explainer

Feb 18, 2024 | ivpressonline.com | Anjan Sundaram

FILE - Ex-militia fighters work in a make-shift mine digging for gold at the town of Ika Barrier, Democratic Republic of Congo, April 22, 2006. Eastern Congo has been beset by conflict for years, with M23 one of more than 100 armed groups vying for a foothold in the mineral-rich area near the border with Rwanda.
Protecting Mexico’s Environmental Defenders: A Policy Imperative

Jan 28, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Anjan Sundaram

At global meetings on protecting the environment—like the UN climate conference, COP28, in December 2023—many participants regularly call for a deep revamp of policies to safeguard the planet’s fragile ecosystems. Indigenous environmental defenders are at the forefront of biodiversity conservation, but the threats they often face for their work are usually ignored by international policymakers. This exacerbates relentless environmental degradation.
Indigenous activists are risking their lives for butterflies

Dec 19, 2023 | msn.com | Anjan Sundaram
Climate activism is becoming more dangerous for land defenders around the world

Dec 19, 2023 | vox.com | Anjan Sundaram

This story is part of a Vox series examining how the climate crisis is impacting communities around the world, as the 28th annual United Nations conference on climate change (COP28) unfolds. Every winter, northwest of Mexico City, the branches of the Oyamel fir trees ignite in orange, colored by the wings of monarch butterflies that have made the epic journey south from Canada and the United States.
Indigenous Activists Are Risking Their Lives for Butterflies

Dec 19, 2023 | rsn.org | Anjan Sundaram

In Central Mexico’s forests, armed community members defend an iconic butterfly from cartel-backed logging. Every winter, northwest of Mexico City, the branches of the Oyamel fir trees ignite in orange, colored by the wings of monarch butterflies that have made the epic journey south from Canada and the United States. The forest is home to the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, created by presidential decree in 1986 and designated as a Unesco World Heritage site in 2008.
When worlds collide

Oct 19, 2023 | telegraphindia.com | Anjan Sundaram

Book: Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime Author: Anjan Sundaram Publication: Simon & Schuster Price: Rs 699 “The violence was absurd.” These are the words that come to Anjan Sundaram — he gave us Bad News and Stringer, unveiling for the world the disastrous consequences of the collusion between power and violence in Africa — as he registers, processes, the mayhem in the Central African Republic that is smeared with sectarian strife and ethnic cleansing. Breakup is replete with scenes and evidence...
Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime

Aug 21, 2023 | rockefellerfoundation.org | Anjan Sundaram

Anjan participated in the Bellagio residency program in 2019. During this residency, he worked on Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime (Catapult, 2023). Anjan is an author, journalist, academic, and television presenter. He is the author of two other journalism memoirs, Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo (2013) and Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship (2016).
How to report on the Central African Republic

Jun 24, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | Anjan Sundaram

The SceneA routine drive from Bouar, a town in western Central African Republic, to the northern city of Bohong became a masterclass in reporting from the frontlines of war. Bouar was a former French military garrison, but the French soldiers had long left, and soldiers of the Central African government had occupied the military base. Mirek—the local abbot of Bouar—and I traversed a rocky moonscape in his white pickup. Cell phone networks didn’t reach this place and Mirek was in a hurry.

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Anjan Sundaram @anjansun

7 Apr 25

In solidarity with the nearly 1 million mostly Tutsi victims of the Rwandan genocide, which began 31 years ago today. My Rwandan journalist colleagues have been killed, tortured, and exiled for exposing the Rwandan dictatorship’s abuses since the genocide. Rwandans deserve better https://t.co/AcHBfyg9aI

Anjan Sundaram @anjansun

4 Apr 25

Honored to hear my brave friend Marcela Turati speak at Los Periodistas Cuentan in Mexico City. Her stories of uncovering mass graves and honoring fallen journalists were a powerful reminder of the courage behind real journalism. #PressFreedom #Mexico https://t.co/5pDL7T3WPN

Anjan Sundaram @anjansun

1 Apr 25

Over 1,700 environmental defenders have made the ultimate sacrifice in the past decade — 70% in Latin America. It's time we honor their courage and listen to their call. https://t.co/OO36IgkEum

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Articles

Meet our planet's hidden defenders

Congo Explainer

Congo Explainer

Protecting Mexico’s Environmental Defenders: A Policy Imperative

Indigenous activists are risking their lives for butterflies

Climate activism is becoming more dangerous for land defenders around the world

Indigenous Activists Are Risking Their Lives for Butterflies

When worlds collide

Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime

How to report on the Central African Republic

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