Thalia Griffiths


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Thalia Griffiths, news editor of African Energy, is a journalist focusing on the politics and economics of West and Central Africa. She has worked with African Energy since its launch in 1998, and also works on other Africa-related CbI projects.

Thalia is a former deputy editor of London-based newsletter Africa Confidential, and travelled extensively for ten years as a correspondent of Reuters news agency. She joined Reuters after leaving Oxford University, where she studied French and German, and her time with the company included three years based in the West Africa bureau in Cote d'Ivoire, plus spells in Cyprus (on the Middle East desk) and Bulgaria. She still travels regularly to Africa, including recent assignments for African Energy to Chad, Senegal and Uganda, amongst other countries.