Rukmini callimachi biography of rory

In , five-year-old Callimachi fled the country with her mother and grandmother by boarding a train to Germany. Her father, a pediatric surgeon, stayed behind to trick the authorities into thinking that they were returning.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a movement that has continued to rattle news media in recent times.

He later joined the rest of the family in Switzerland, where they were granted asylum. Callimachi began her journalism career as a reporter at the Daily Herald , a newspaper covering suburban Chicago, and got her big break as a freelance journalist in when she covered the catastrophic earthquake in Gujarat, India. Callimachi would later serve as a reporter and bureau chief covering a country beat in Africa for the Associated Press.

During her seven years with the Associated Press, she was highly acclaimed for her in-depth reporting, such as her coverage of the exploitation of impoverished children in West and Central Africa , and child trafficking to the United States.

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In , after French forces pushed back the al-Qaeda fighters in Timbuktu, Mali, Callimachi found herself in the rare position of having access to the building used by the jihadists as their administrative office. She started gathering every single loose paper in sight in trash bags. In , she exposed how al-Qaeda was bankrolling its operations through ransoms paid by European governments to free their hostages.

In , Callimachi released Caliphate , a episode podcast, in which she interviews a Canadian member of ISIS who confesses to the murders he says he carried out on behalf of the group. In , she fulfilled a promise to readers by making more than 15, pages of internal ISIS records accessible online through a partnership with George Washington University.

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