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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Sudanese government agrees to reopen key border crossing for humanitarian aid
Aug 15, 2024
The vital Adre crossing’s reopening follows urgent calls for humanitarian assistance in Sudan’s Darfur region, as civil war ravages the country.
South Africa’s ANC kicks former president Jacob Zuma out of party he once led
Jul 29, 2024
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been expelled from the African National Congress (ANC), the party he once led.
From $7 graffiti to arson and a bomb plot: How Russia’s ‘shadow war’ on NATO members has evolved
Jul 11, 2024
Russia has been engaged in a “bold” sabotage operation across NATO’s member states for more than six months, targeting the supply lines of weapons for Ukraine and the decision-makers behind it, according to a senior NATO official.
Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?
Jun 5, 2024
South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) party faces a mammoth challenge as it needs to form a government with its political rivals after suffering a seismic blow in last week’s election.
Nelson Mandela’s party has been dealt a seismic election blow. Where does it leave South Africa?
Jun 2, 2024
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has lost its majority for the first time in 30 years, final election results announced Sunday confirmed.
First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid
May 30, 2024
The early results declared in South Africa’s election suggest the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party could lose its majority for the first time in 30 years.
South Africans go to the polls in election seen as biggest test yet to ANC’s 30 years in power
May 29, 2024
Millions of South Africans are voting in what is expected to be the most pivotal general election since the end of apartheid.
Nelson Mandela’s party has ruled South Africa for three decades – it now faces a critical moment of truth
May 22, 2024
South Africans are set to go to the polls on May 29 for what will likely be the most pivotal general election since the end of apartheid. Here’s all you need to know.
South Africa’s democracy is turning 30 – but a silent crisis threatens its hard-fought gains
Apr 27, 2024
Former anti-apartheid student protest leader Seth Mazibuko is among activists and educators who believe a crisis is hollowing out the country’s education system.
Sudan on brink of collapse and starvation as country marks one year of civil war
Apr 15, 2024
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.
Tens of millions facing hunger and water shortages as extreme drought and floods sweep southern Africa
Apr 4, 2024
More than 24 million people face hunger, malnutrition and water scarcity as experts warn the crisis could become an “unimaginable humanitarian situation”
Bus carrying Easter worshipers plunges off bridge killing 45 people in South Africa
Mar 29, 2024
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.
‘I knew I could be killed’: This cash van guard is just one of South Africa’s crime wave victims
Mar 28, 2024
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.
Kenyans struggle to comprehend starvation cult massacre as first bodies are finally released for burial
Mar 27, 2024
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.
About
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.
