Tsitsi Bhobo (she/her)
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Tsitsi Bhobo is a freelance, self-trained journalist and writer from Zimbabwe. She works in the countries of Southern Africa (covering South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia). She enjoys collaborative journalism. She covers the green transition and mobility, vaccine treatable infectious diseases, the climate-induced forced immigration, diplomacy, refugee rights, etc.

Her work is published in GAVI, the news section of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, The Xylom the Asian-American science news sites bases in New York, Goatpol, the nonprofit Canadian Literary Network, Down to Earth, the green transition focused global news site based in India, Vittles Magazines in the UK, and Earth Island Journal news site in California. Her proudest journalism moment was recently when she reported that cheap, and dirty used EV cars from Japan shipped to Africa are undermining the green transition and green recycling standards across the continent.

Her upcoming journalism work, to be published soon, is a multi-country investigation of how climate-induced extreme heat is depleting water levels in Africa’s great rivers, and thus making easier the job of human smuggling cartels who are shuttling desperate migrants down to South Africa. It will be co-published in Earth Island Journal news site in California, and Daily Maverick South Africa.