Birte Mensing is a freelance multimedia-journalist.

She lives in Nairobi and reports as a multimedia freelance journalist for various German and European media houses from East, West and Central Africa. She also is the Africa Correspondent for the German News Agency Evangelischer Pressedienst. She previously worked in the ZDF German TV studio in Nairobi. Her stories gravitate around justice issues, particularly in matters of politics, economics and environment.

Photo by Victoria Komu. 

Basic information

Name
Birte Mensing
Title
Journalist
Expertise
Africa, migration
Country
Kenya
City
Nairobi
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Supported projects

How Northern Kenya Is Fighting Exploitation By Oil Companies

  • Environment

LOKICHAR – This investigation explores the operations of oil companies in Northern Kenya and the responses of local stakeholders, including pastoralists, former oil workers, and land rights advocates. One such company is Tullow Oil, a British firm that bought oil blocks in the region over a decade ago.

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Pesticides: Poison for Sale

  • Agriculture
  • Environment
  • Healthcare

BERLIN/NAIROBI - Why and how dangerous pesticide products produced in the EU — and Germany in particular — are continued to be sold in other countries? The investigation looks at how agrochemical companies try to maintain an unregulated pesticide market, despite tightening regulations in Europe. 

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