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Sarah Dean - Field Producer, CNN International

Sarah Dean

Field Producer, CNN International

Sarah Dean is an award-winning multimedia Field Producer for CNN International, based in London.

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TOPSHOT - Sudanese security forces patrol in a commercial district in Gedaref city in eastern Sudan on April 3, 2024. Sudan's war has claimed thousands of lives and displaced more than 8.5 million people, according to the UN. (Photo by Ebrahim Hamid / AFP) (Photo by EBRAHIM HAMID/AFP via Getty Images)

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Sudan on brink of collapse and starvation as country marks one year of civil war

As Sudan marks the grim anniversary of a year-long conflict, aid agencies have warned that the country teeters on the edge of collapse, facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that has largely been ignored by the rest of the world.

A field of failed corn crops due to drought at a farm in Glendale, Zimbabwe, on Monday, March 11, 2024. A swathe of southern Africa about the size of France suffered the driest February in decades, killing crops and precipitating a power shortage that threatens to hit copper mines in a key producing region. Photographer: Cynthia R Matonhodze/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Tens of millions facing hunger and water shortages as extreme drought and floods sweep southern Africa

More than 24 million people face hunger, malnutrition and water scarcity as experts warn the crisis could become an “unimaginable humanitarian situation”

A view of the burnt remains of the bus that was taking Easter pilgrims from Botswana to Moria, following its crash near Mamatlakala in the northern province of Limpopo, South Africa March 29, 2024.

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Bus carrying Easter worshipers plunges off bridge killing 45 people in South Africa

Dozens of worshipers died after a bus headed to an Easter conference crashed in South Africa’s Limpopo province on Thursday, the latest tragedy in a country where recent road accidents have led to multiple casualties.

A view shows a crime scene after at least 18 cash-in-transit robbers were shot and killed during a shootout with a specialised airborne police unit in Makhado, Limpopo, South Africa September 1, 2023. South African Police Service/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE

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‘I knew I could be killed’: This cash van guard is just one of South Africa’s crime wave victims

Cash-in-transit heists are one of the most dramatic illustrations of a crime wave that’s shocked even the most hardened South Africans, with murder at a 20-year high.

Mortuary personnel pull a cart with the remains of a victim of a Kenyan starvation cult at the Malindi Sub-County Hospital Mortuary in Malindi on March 26, 2024. Kenyan authorities on March 26, 2024 released several bodies of worshippers linked to a doomsday starvation cult case dubbed as the "Shakahola forest massacre" that shocked the country and the world. The remains are the first to be handed over to their families after nearly a year of painstaking work to identify them using DNA. (Photo by LUIS TATO / AFP) (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)

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Kenyans struggle to comprehend starvation cult massacre as first bodies are finally released for burial

The family members clutched each other and wailed as attendants pulled small bundles out of the funeral van. Remains so degraded that a handwritten card identified each victim of the cult.

Residents of the township of Soweto, South Africa, queue for water Saturday, March 16, 2024. Thousands of South Africans are lining up for water as the country's largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its water system affecting millions of people. Residents rich and poor have never seen a shortage of this severity. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Jerome Delay/AP

Taps running dry have become part of daily life in South Africa’s biggest city

Johannesburg is one of many of the world’s big cities that are dealing with crumbling critical infrastructure, corruption and poor planning for population growth.

North Kivu province, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Thousands sheltering in hospital as fighting escalates in Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands of people are seeking shelter inside an “overwhelmed” hospital amid an escalation of fighting in North Kivu province in the eastern DRC, Doctors Without Borders warned on Thursday.

Toddler chimps, Shine, Skippy and Pataya, enjoy 'forest school'. It is a chance for them to get to grips with the trees.

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Sierra Leone is losing its forests. This sanctuary is trying to save chimpanzees and their vital habitat

Orphaned chimpanzees have found a new home in a sanctuary inside a national park. But they are still threatened by deforestation that affects the whole region.

FILE - Oscar Pistorius leaves the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 14, 2016 during his trail for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Oscar Pistorius is due on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024 to be released from prison on parole to live under strict conditions at a family home after serving nearly nine years of his murder sentence for the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

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Oscar Pistorius released from South Africa prison after serving 9 years for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

The double-amputee sprinter was released from prison on Friday, more than a decade after shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a killing that shocked the world.

Family Watch International founder Sharon Slater (in purple) is pictured with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (wearing a facemask) outside Ugandaâs State House in April during a conference on so-called âfamily valuesâ SOURCE: Facebook/National Resistance Movement

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Activists link US nonprofit to anti-LGBTQ laws in Africa. The group says it’s only promoting ‘family values’

For months, CNN has investigated whether Family Watch International has helped promote a raft of homophobic bills in Uganda, Kenya and Ghana – allegations it denies.

Ethnic related killings have intensified since fighting broke out mid-April between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

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Disturbing videos emerge showing atrocities against African ethnic groups in Darfur

Members of African ethnic groups in Sudan’s Darfur region appear to have been rounded up by members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and other Arab militias, according to videos and images verified and geolocated by CNN that appeared online since the weekend.

An aerial view of downtown Johannesburg, with the 269m Hillbrow Tower, Africa's tallest structure, in the background. The city center has been the site of intensive rejuvenation efforts following years of urban decay in the 1990s.

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South Africa’s Transport Minister and bodyguards robbed at gunpoint

South Africa’s transport minister and her bodyguards were robbed at gunpoint on Monday, according to the South African Police Service (SAPS).

Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from Israel, November 3, 2023. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

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South Africa and Chad recall diplomats from Israel

South Africa and Chad have announced they will recall diplomats from Israel for “consultation” in response to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, poses for a photograph after his press conference at his home in Magere, Uganda, on January 26, 2021.

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Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine arrested at airport as he returns home

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine was arrested at Entebbe International Airport near the capital Kampala on Thursday as he returned to the country, according to his party the National Unity Platform.

Zoleka Mandela

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Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter dies aged 43

Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter Zoleka Mandela has died of cancer at the age of 43, a family spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday.

FILE - Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, April 18, 2023. Gershkovich, who was detained on espionage charges, arrived at a Moscow court Thursday, Aug. 24, for a hearing on a motion by the prosecution to extend his arrest. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

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Moscow court extends WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich’s pre-trial detention

A Moscow court has extended the pre-trial detention of Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich, who had been arrested on espionage charges, by three months.

Sarah Dean is an award-winning multimedia Field Producer for CNN International, based in London.

Dean previously worked as CNN’s Johannesburg-based Field Producer, producing exclusive and distinctive stories across Africa for CNN’s TV and digital platforms.

Prior to this, Dean spent five years as a Senior News Editor for CNN International, overseeing newsgathering and editorial output in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Dean has played a vital role in CNN’s coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with deployments to Moscow, Ukraine, Austria, Sweden and Poland. She is a duPont-Columbia and Emmy Award winner for her coverage of the conflict.

Dean graduated with a journalism and sociology degree from City University, London, in 2009.