Elza Sandrine Sawadogo, Burkina Faso, has worked as a journalist at L’Economiste du Faso, a leading economic weekly since 2013.
She has worked on numerous ICIJ investigations including Panama Papers and Fatal Extraction.
Sawadogo started her career as a journalist in 2009 after completing studies in English, communications and journalism at the University of Ouagadougou.
She specializes in economic and financial reporting (illicit financial flows, corporate fraud, ill-gotten wealth, among other subjects).
Sawadogo also works with the Thomson Reuters Foundation on economic subjects and enjoys working collaboratively with journalists in the West African region.
'You have to work to get respect': Being a female investigative reporter in Burkina Faso
We talk to Sandrine Sawadogo from Burkina Faso about the tough conditions she works in to report on some of the region’s most important stories.
