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Ulf Laessing
Head of Regional Program Sahel
Ulf Laessing has been head of the Sahel regional programme in Mali since December 2021. He previously worked for 13 years as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief at the Reuters news agency in the Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, specialising in the Arab Spring, conflicts and military missions, political transformations, terrorism and jihadists, migration, the economy and climate change. Laessing is the author of a book on the Libyan conflict and studied history, Islamic studies and economics in Hamburg, Leipzig and Kuwait.