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MULTIMEDIA
​A selection of Elsa Buchanan’s audio-visual and communications projects - from short documentaries and recorded interviews to advocacy videos and digital storytelling campaigns. Her multimedia work combines journalistic reporting with humanitarian communications to highlight stories of conflict, recovery, and resilience across the Middle East and Africa.

​This page includes both editorial and NGO-commissioned productions, created independently or in collaboration with field teams and partners.

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• 2023-2024 - Project Masam

Field reports - Bab al-Mandab and Aden, Yemen
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• 2016 - 2017 Arise News

Guest analyst on Sub-Saharan news, including Burundi, DRC and Gabon

• ​2015 - 2017 Islam Channel

Guest analyst on Sub-Saharan news, including Central African Republic and the Gambia

• 2016 KBIA

Guest on NPR’s affiliate’s Global Journalist show about Burundi

• 2015 - 2017 International Business Times TV

Documentary - Calais’ forgotten refugee children with nowhere to go
Interview with Adam Kyala Lungalunga, survivor of ADF rebels’ attack in DRC
Report - Demonstrating for Aleppo, Syria
Report - Scaling-up HIV care for the poorest families in rural Lesotho
Interview - Zimbabwean former minister David Coltart
Interview - Zimbabwean activist Sten Zvorwadza on widespread ‘repression’
Interview - Abducted and abused Zimbabwean activist Silvanos Bhanditi Mudzvova
Interview - Zimbabwean activist Kudakwashe Kambakunje reveals kidnapping, abuse
Report - Meeting ZImbabwe’s #ThisFlag activists
Interview - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Tendai Biti
Interview - Burundian rights defender Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa on uncovering mass graves
Interview - Fadumo Dayib, Somalia's first female presidential
Report: DRC opposition rallies around new ‘Rassemblement’ platform in Belgium
Interview: Angela, young survivor of rebel attack in Beni, DRC
Report: Meeting the teams using drones to combat wildlife crime in Malawi and Zimbabwe
Interview with DRC judge in exile, Chantale Ramazani Wazuri
Interview with Uganda’s opposition ahead of 2016 poll
Interview with DRC former minister of justice, human rights Wivine Mumba Matipa
Short documentary - Breaking DRC's conflict mining curse
[French version ] La malédiction des minerais de sang du Congo
Short documentary - How safe water programs are keeping Kenyan girls in school
Report - Burundi: Journalists in danger [Part 1, Part 2, Part 3]
Report - Burundi: Opposition leaders fear targeted killings
Report - Burundi’s young rebel fighters: Looking for a new life
Report - Burundi’s opposition boycotts legislative polls
Interview with Burundian lawyer Pacelli Ndukimana
Interview with Imam Shaukat Warraich, battling Isis propaganda
Interview with Prince Yanek Zylinski, at Polish migrants strike
Report - European Commission petitioned to scrap controversial TTIP deal
Interview - Sam Bowman of Adam Smith Institute, on TTIP deal
Interview - Nick Dearden of Global Justice Now, on TTIP deal
Interview - Eye on Brazil with Thiago de Aragão of Arko Advice
Interview - Ebola’s 100 days with Rossella Miccio of Emergency in Liberia and Sierra Leone

• 2014 - Citywire TV

Interview with RWC's John Teahan
Interview with Societe Generale's Eric Verleyen
Interview with Canaccord Wealth's Rob Jukes
Interview with RBC's George King

• 2011 - Datum Foundation Productions

Documentary - Maendeleo: Bringing change to Kisongo
Short documentary - Genesis Orphanage