Els De Temmerman is a Belgian journalist living in Uganda.
After graduating from secondary school (Latin), she began to study German philology at KULAK. She graduated in 1984 in Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven).
Before starting her career in journalism, she taught at Feng Chia University and worked for Médecins Sans Frontières in Sudan. Since 1988, she has worked as a journalist and correspondent for Dutch and Flemish media. These included Het Volk, Wereldwijd, De Volkskrant, the then BRTN, VTM and De Morgen. She was particularly passionate about Africa and was therefore the Africa correspondent par excellence.
In 1994, she was present in Rwanda during the genocide. During the civil war in Uganda, where she was in 1998 for De Morgen, she was confronted with child abductions. About this she wrote a book, The Girls of Aboke. In 2000, she put journalism aside and opened a centre for child soldiers in Uganda. The centre closed at the end of 2006 because far-reaching peace talks were under way in the country. Els De Temmerman was editor-in-chief of the Ugandan newspaper New Vision from 2006 to 2008.
In 2012, she started The New Nation newspaper in newly independent South Sudan. As a result of the war, she had to quit this in 2015.
(Source: Wikipedia and De Standaard)