Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

15 Years of War

A Dart Centre Interview With Journalist Leon Malherbe

By Refqa Abu-Remaileh

Leon Malherbe, 42, camera producer for Reuters, has covered many of the major international conflicts of the past 15 years, starting in 1990 with anti-apartheid clashes in South African townships. From there, he reported on civil wars in Angola and Mozambique, the arrival of U.S. troops in Somalia, the Rwandan genocide and civil war in the Congo. In between, he also covered the wars in Yugoslavia.