Soumaila T. Diarra

IPS correspondent Soumaila T. Diarra is a Malian journalist born in 1977. He grew up in the small village of Massantola and relocated to the north west of Mali 150 km from Bamako, the capital city of his country. Soumaila’s passion for journalism began in 2004 after he obtained a bachelor’s degree in history at the University of Bamako. Cuurently, he is a freelancer for local newspapers and a correspondent for Syfia International, Sporo magazine and Reuters AlertNet. Soumaila is also a media consultant for Panos London’s “Linking Southern Journalists with European Media” project.