Abdi Latif Dahir

For a year, my colleague @ScheckNYTimes and I looked into why domestic workers from across East Africa, who are promised jobs and a better life in Saudi Arabia, continued to face abuse, starvation and death. Here's what we found. nytimes.com/2025/03/16/wor…

A Kenyan mother with a year-old has been sentenced in Saudi Arabia to 100 lashes and a year of banishment for childbirth outside marriage. “I am so afraid,” Esther Wanja Muthoni, whom we profiled in our investigation into domestic workers last year, said nytimes.com/2026/11/10/wor…

Powerful and haunting story by @khoureld and @hafiz54472061 about the bravery and tenacity of a group of Sudanese doctors, volunteers and nurses in El Fasher who stayed to save lives as a genocidal militia besieged their beloved city. economist.com/interactive/18…

The losses from the war engulfing Lebanon have been enormous: lives lost, livelihoods destroyed, families torn apart. In Beirut, I met a barber whose shop was destroyed after an Israeli strike hit a nearby site, ending a dream he had spent years building. nytimes.com/video/world/mi…

We won the National Newspaper Investigative category at the 2026 National Association of Black Journalists’ Salute to Excellence Awards for our series on the abuse of East African workers in Saudi Arabia. Grateful to those who trusted us, and the editors who championed the work