Colette Braeckman

Colette Braeckman "is a journalist with the french-language Belgian newspaper Le Soir and a frequent contributor to Le Monde diplomatique. She is known for her expertise on African affairs, in particular Central Africa. She is the author of Le dinosaure: le Zaïre de Mobutu (1992), Rwanda: histoire d'un génocide (1994), Terreur africaine. Burundi, Rwanda, Zaïre: les racines de la violence (1996), L'enjeu congolais: l'Afrique centrale après Mobutu (1999), and Les nouveaux prédateurs: politique des puissances en Afrique centrale (2003). Most recently, Ms. Braeckman has been covering the Congo elections and their aftermath for Le Soir."

• International Jury (2002), Reporters Without Borders