BARBARA JONES is the Africa Correspondent for the Mail on Sunday newspaper, travelling to all parts of the continent to cover news stories for a British readership.
She also reported from Afghani...view moreBARBARA JONES is the Africa Correspondent for the Mail on Sunday newspaper, travelling to all parts of the continent to cover news stories for a British readership.
She also reported from Afghanistan and Iraq during the years of invasion and civil war, and was in Libya throughout the revolution in 2011.
She learnt her journalism the old-fashioned way, starting with a weekly newspaper in Hastings, East Sussex, and progressing to provincial evening newspapers in Leicester, Oldham and Preston.
Her natural home is the Mail on Sunday with its tireless demands for exclusive stories. The newspaper sent her to South Africa in the year 2000 where one of her first experiences was to meet Nelson Mandela on a visit to his former prison, and to shake his hand.
She lives in Cape Town, and has two sons.view less
