Heidi Vogt, a 2017 Nieman Fellow, is now based in D.C. where she covers trends in business regulation for The Wall Street Journal. Before her fellowship, she spent 10 years as a foreign correspondent in Africa and Central Asia.
While on assignment in Somalia a few years back, I found myself sitting in the waiting room of the Mogadishu mayor’s office alongside a dozen Somali men—some in white robes, some in baggy suits. One of them—an old man with a … Read more
