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Sara Hussein will cover the climate crisis, environment and science across the Asia-Pacific region. She was previously Tokyo deputy bureau chief and led coverage of events ranging from the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Olympics to the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe. Before that, she was based in the Middle East for nearly eight years, reporting from locations including Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Libya. She received the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for war correspondents in the “young reporter” category in 2011, for her reporting from Libya. She started her career with AFP in 2009, on the North America news desk in Washington.  

Qasim Nauman will cover the technology sector, its economy and the consequences of a hyper-connected world on societies and individuals, across Asia-Pacific. With deep knowledge in tech, Qasim has already leveraged his interest to boost AFP’s coverage of everything from cybersecurity, AI and space to gaming, crypto and web culture. Beyond tech, he has helped co ver some of the biggest stories in the region – from the Covid-19 pandemic and the fall of Afghanistan to Hong Kong’s political crisis and mass terror attacks in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. He joined AFP in 2017 as an editor on the Asia-Pacific news desk in Hong Kong. Prior to this, Qasim was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in Islamabad. 

For several years, the impact of the climate crisis and technology on everyday lives around the globe has been an editorial priority at AFP. The creation of these new positions is another strong commitment from AFP to offer human-focused and image-driven stories to its clients worldwide on critical issues.