Robyn Dixon

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Robyn Dixon, Johannesburg Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times has been a foreign correspondent for 22 years and has covered Africa since 2003. She has won awards for her coverage, including the Robert F. Kennedy award for international reporting, the Batten Medal, the Daniel Pearl Award for courage and integrity in reporting and the Sigma Delta Chi award for international reporting. Robyn Dixon has worked in daily journalism since 1978, covering a range of beats for several Australian newspapers. In 1993 she went to Moscow as correspondent, and covered the former USSR and wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq. She has been with the Los Angeles Times since 1999. In Africa, she has covered the Darfur crisis, Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown, post-election violence in Kenya, Boko Haram in Nigeria, the death of Nelson Mandela, and the Ebola outbreak amongst other stories.

Highlights

Reporting

| Robyn Dixon

This town in South Sudan has no name. It was never meant to exist. Now 21,000 people live there.

It is a throbbing, jostling town with no name. Wander down the dirt street, and you’ll see a hubbub of boys playing ball, women selling small bags of sugar or charcoal, children selling plastic bottles…
| Robyn Dixon

To understand life in rural South Sudan, talk to this man about his cattle

The possessions in Luko Loku’s thatched home convey his simple life. A bedside stool with a sliver of mirror. An old door hinge. A machete lying on the bed frame, as if sleeping. His clothes…
| Robyn Dixon

Child brides sold for cows: The Price of Being a Girl in South Sudan

When the girl was 16, her uncle told her he was taking her to the family village. Excited about the trip, she packed the few things she had. She thought the plan was to meet…