SIMONE SCHLINDWEIN studied East European studies, was Moscow correspondent for the Spiegel, but since 2008 she has been living in Uganda and is the correspondent of the German “tageszeitung” (taz.de) for the Great Lakes region: DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Central African Republic, South Sudan. In 2016 she was awarded the journalists’ prize “Die lange Atem” for research on the Rwandan Hutu militia FDLR in DRC and the corresponding book “Crime Scene Congo – Trial in Germany”.