Katrina Manson is an award-winning journalist who covered Africa for 12 years, living in Kenya, DR Congo, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso. During this time she co-authored the first ever travel guidebook to Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso, published by Bradt Guides. She is currently a Bloomberg News reporter covering the nexus of cyber and emerging technology with national security. She has written on satellite hacking, the arrival of AI warfare and spyware. She was previously at the Financial Times, as US foreign policy and defence correspondent based in Washington DC, and – before that – as the newspaper’s East Africa correspondent, living in Kenya and covering 13 territories. Before that, she was a Reuters correspondent in DR Congo, Tanzania, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso.