Journalist and consultant. Four times winner, UN Correspondents Association Journalism Awards.
United Kingdom
Joined February 2010
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Most people on X know me as a former reporter for @BBCAfrica. But I was also with @TheHALOTrust in @Ukraine. Next adventure - volunteer with @UkrAaction driving a vehicle from London to Kyiv to hand over to UKR emergency services. Take a look - thanks: justgiving.com/page/mark-doy….
I attended the funeral of a neighbour in southern England in a Catholic Church yesterday - the pastor in charge was Kenyan.
I've raised £1300 towards a £3,500 target for a Four Wheel Drive for Ukraine. Thanks so much to all so far. With
@UkrAaction
, I'll drive it to Ukraine in September then give it to the emergency rescue services. More details here: justgiving.com/page/mark-doy…
Great TV about sea mines and speedboats in the Black Sea (click link then scroll to bottom of text for video): kyivindependent.com/ukraine-…. Excellent journalism from
@KyivIndependent
Maybe also take a look at my modest
@UkrAaction
initiative here: justgiving.com/page/mark-doy… Thanks
Most people on X know me from @BBCAfrica - bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-3209…. More recently I was with the landmine charity @TheHALOTrust, including in @Ukraine . Next adventure is volunteering with @UkrAaction, driving from London to Kyiv. Take a look: justgiving.com/page/mark-doy…. Thanks
My most useful contact in the #sierraleone army was a Major Jones. I embedded with him while he led a peacekeeping contingent in Somalia. And let’s not forget the Spanish football star Nico Williams, Spanish and of west African ancestry.
My most useful contact in the #sierraleone army was a Major Jones. I embedded with him while he led a peacekeeping contingent in Somalia. And let’s not forget the Spanish football star Nico Williams, Spanish and of west African ancestry.
Attenborough and an historic murder in Rwanda: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
@modelofchange Kindly follow and DM me, Gerry. I think we know each other from Rwanda in 1994. Thanks - Mark Doyle
My article about the Hollywood blockbuster 'A Bridge Too Far', a young Dutch boy killed by a landmine and how a violent death sent grief - and hope - through generations👇
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Mark Doyle retweeted
We all mourn the loss of Hollywood great Robert Redford this week, but do you know the real-life landmine tragedy behind the Second World War blockbuster he starred in, A Bridge Too Far?
The film depicts the Battle of Arnhem, which took place 81 years ago this weekend. Redford plays an officer in the Anglo-American Airborne Corps fighting to take a series of bridges along the Rhine in Nazi-occupied Holland.
But the Nazis forced the Allies into a defensive pocket in the Arnhem suburb of Oosterbeek, where a family home was used as a field hospital for British military casualties.
The house that was used as the field hospital – both in real life and in the film – belonged to the Ter Horst family. They knew only too well about the human cost of war. In 1947, three years after the war ended, their 13-year-old son Piek stepped on a landmine as he played in the garden. He died instantly.
Read Mark Doyle’s story on how Piek’s brother and sister can still recall that terrible moment – and how a generous gift in their mother’s will has helped HALO clear landmines around the world since – saving thousands of other children from the fate of her own child.
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Mark Doyle retweeted
In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.
Good points. I don't think I ever described the Yoruba as a "tribe" in the years I was lucky enough to report for the BBC on Nigeria. I would usually describe them as an "ethnic group" - though if homing in on Yorubu culture or organisation, I might sometimes use "Yoruba nation".