She was based in London with the Press Association news wire before moving to the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, which operates the www.telegraph.co.uk website. There, she worked as a general news reporter and defence correspondent before moving to Johannesburg to become the Southern Africa Correspondent and latterly, Africa Correspondent. During the past six years, she has covered a range of political, social and economic stories including the death of Nelson Mandela, the Westgate and Garissa terror attacks in Kenya, the Burundian and Ivory Coast crises and the trial of Oscar Pistorius.