CARLA FIBLA GARCÍA-SALA (Spain)

Carla Fibla García-Sala is an analyst journalist specialized in Africa and the Middle East.

She has lived and traveled in the MENA region (Maghreb and Middle East) for more than 15 years, opening two news posts for Cadena SER and La Vanguardia.

With a degree in Journalism and specialized in International Information and Southern Countries. At the age of 22 she settled in Cairo (Egypt), where she began her professional career working as a freelance for several media. She later joined the editorial staff of Diario 16 (Madrid) and Euronews (Lyon, France) and collaborated in the launching of several journalistic projects such as El Estado Mental or Contexto. As well as advising NGOs such as Action Against Hunger, Vicente Ferrer Foundation or Amnesty International. She has also collaborated with institutions focused on development cooperation such as AECID and FIIAP.

She has published six books of essays and interviews on migration, human rights, democracy and governance; subjects in which she has specialized. And she has received several awards, most recently the Saliou Traoré Prize from the EFE Agency and Casa África 2020.

In 2021 she worked as a correspondent for the magazine Mundo Negro and El País from South Africa, covering the southern African region and is currently part of the editorial staff of Mundo Negro coordinating the Cultures and African sections, as well as covering current affairs.