Veteran BBC Africa correspondent Mark Doyle dies aged 67
Doyle was best known for reporting on African conflicts in the 1990s and 2000s, notably in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
British journalist Mark Doyle, best known for his reporting on conflicts in Africa in the 1990s and 2000s, has died aged 67 after a short illness.
After living in Africa, he joined the BBC in 1986. Doyle became East Africa correspondent in 1993 and made his mark covering the Rwandan genocide a year later.
As West Africa correspondent from 1997 to 2002, he reported on Sierra Leone's brutal civil war and aftermath of Liberia's conflict.
In the piece Fergal Keane, another prominent BBC correspondent in Africa, recalled their stint in Rwanda in 1994. "He stayed longer than any of us," Keane said of Doyle. "Those who were in that awful place at that awful time will know what Mark Doyle gave for the cause of truth and for the BBC."