Christian Jennings biography
Christian Jennings is a British freelance foreign correspondent and the author of four works of non-fiction published in the UK, the US, Holland and Italy. Since 1988, across twenty-three countries, he has been writing books and journalism on international current affairs and travel, Special Forces, intelligence and latterly science for publications ranging fromThe Economist and Reuters to Wired , The Daily Telegraph and The Scotsman. He has been based variously in Kigali, Pristina, Skopje, Nairobi, Geneva and Bujumbura, and now lives in Sarajevo, where from 2008-2010 he took a sabbatical from journalism to work for ICMP. He has now returned to full-time writing.
His latest book was published in 2004 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, entitled Midnight in Some Burning Town: British Special Forces Operations from Belgrade to Baghdad. His seminal account of covering genocides in the Great Lakes region of East Africa, Across the Red River – Rwanda, Burundi and the Heart of Darkness, was published in 2000, also by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
