Laura Angela Bagnetto

Laura Angela Bagnetto is a broadcast journalist with the English-language service at Radio France Internationale in Paris. She has held that position since 2008, covering African politics and development. She reported in Rwanda for the 20th commemoration of the genocide there, and she has covered a range of stories from the presidential elections in Zimbabwe to insecurity and food shortages in northern Niger. She began her career as a human rights reporter for Vatican Radio in Rome, later covering Middle East issues at the UN Security Council in New York. As a volunteer for International Farm Radio, she mentors African rural farming reporters. Bagnetto holds a bachelor’s degree in European social history from UCLA and a master's degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Highlights

Reporting

| Hannah Reyes Morales, Denise Hruby

These Mothers Are Building Homes in Refugee Camps

Sharon Kide, a South Sudanese woman, sits with her children inside her home in Pagirinya, a refugee camp in Northern Uganda. South Sudanese mothers, amidst their own trauma, are creating homes for a generation of…
| Hannah Reyes Morales, Denise Hruby

Romance Without Borders: As China grows its influence in Uganda, one cross-cultural couple raises a family

ENTEBBE, Uganda – Almost a quarter of a century into their marriage, Elly Amani Gamukama still smiles when he describes how he met his wife, Yuan Zhongshun. It was the early ’90s at a university…
| Laura Angela Bagnetto

Female Farmers Rebuilding Agriculture in the Central African Republic

“This war affected rural women a lot, because they lost their farming equipment, they lost their husbands, their children, they lost everything,” says Odette Guerel-Baïlé, founder of Women, Flowers of the Central African Republic, an…