Andrei Popoviciu
@AndreiPopoviciu
independent journalist. work @lhreports @ajenglish @lemondefr @washingtonpost @guardian @newlinesmag @telegraph @foreignpolicy @ap @derspiegel @newhumanitarian
Happy to have contributed to this story for the first digital edition of @ObserverUK !
Exciting to have co-written the leading story on the first *ever* digital edition of The Observer newspaper, now live. Congrats to @basialcummings and her team for creating observer.co.uk in record time and thank you to @phoebe_ivy and @AndreiPopoviciu for helping…
Economic sanctions have debilitated Syria’s healthcare system. Even as sanctions are lifted, it could take many years to recover. I spoke to @AndreiPopoviciu for his story: inthesetimes.com/article/syria-…
Western sanctions on Syria were meant to punish the regime but mostly crushed ordinary lives. The healthcare system was hit hardest and will struggle to recover long after sanctions are gone. Read more in my report for @inthesetimesmag inthesetimes.com/article/syria-…
“If it wasn’t for the famine, this would’ve been the biggest wedding...” In #Sudan, a bride and her village celebrate love in a time of war. By @AndreiPopoviciu w/ photographs by @guypeterson_ via @csmonitor csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2…
In Sudan, @guypeterson_ and I attended a wedding that almost didn’t happen. A year ago, famine and war pushed this community to the brink. Thanks to their community, they made it happen. Our story for @csmonitor: csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2…
Sudan’s war is now the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis—14M displaced, famine, war crimes committed with impunity. @guypeterson_ and I reported from the Nuba Mountains, where a rebel group recently allied with the genocidal RSF. Our first dispatch thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2…
With Syria’s caretaker government slow to investigate the disappearance of potentially thousands of children, crucial evidence may be lost or destroyed—along with any trace of those still missing, @AndreiPopoviciu writes. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/03/syr…
NEW: As extremist parties edge closer to power across Europe, states mull bans and disqualifications. Yet such measures risk undermining democracy as they seek to protect it, argues @AndreiPopoviciu for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/argument/the-d…
For @newlinesmag I wrote about a growing use of political bans to protect democracies and whether they might actually do more to damage it with examples from Romania, France and Germany
NEW: As extremist parties edge closer to power across Europe, states mull bans and disqualifications. Yet such measures risk undermining democracy as they seek to protect it, argues @AndreiPopoviciu for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/argument/the-d…
In late January I went to Syria to report on what happened to the tens of thousands of children of detainees that disappeared in the bowels of Assad’s prisons. For @ForeignPolicy I wrote about what I found. With photos by Alexandra Corcode: foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/03/syr…
‘The worst we’ve ever seen’: Cholera wards buckle as South Sudan races to contain deadly outbreak The country’s epidemic, which began last October, has spiralled out of control and has already claimed more than 1,000 lives @AndreiPopoviciu reports telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
Read our dispatch from a cholera ward in South Sudan, where a cholera epidemic is spiraling out of control as NGOs and aid organizations are cutting funds in a country that depends on them more than any other. With photos by @guypeterson_
‘The worst we’ve ever seen’: Cholera wards buckle as South Sudan races to contain deadly outbreak The country’s epidemic, which began last October, has spiralled out of control and has already claimed more than 1,000 lives @AndreiPopoviciu reports telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🎙️After Europe's 'Super Sunday' of elections, tune into this episode of #PolicyVoices with former Romanian prime minister @CiolosDacian, journalist @AndreiPopoviciu and political analysist @mluisammoreira to discuss the elections' outcomes. 👇Listen here tinyurl.com/mryzmcpt
🇲🇩🇪🇺Honored to join the @FriendsofEurope public session on rebuilding trust in a polarised society. In a time of uncertainty, it's more important than ever to connect, reflect, and act together for the future of our democracies. #EYL40
What did @NicusorDanRO’s 9-year old daughter tell him when he said he would run for President of #Romania? Find out in this @POLITICOEurope portrait of the common sense candidate who bucked the trend of populism. @TimRoss_1 @AndreiPopoviciu politico.eu/article/nicuso…
Francis visited the continent five times over the course of 12 years, often wading into its most intractable conflicts .@AndreiPopoviciu was in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains and witnessed this scene:
Tristan Tate is far less well known than his notorious elder sibling, Andrew. But today Tristan’s central role in the brothers’ alleged criminality can be revealed for the first time. @AlexiMostrous | @AndreiPopoviciu | @Phoebe_ivy Read more: bit.ly/4cYs6FZ
Memo to @VP and @elonmusk: Why Romania matters and how one candidate wants to save it from the cynicism and despair that Putin's agents happily exploit. Interview with Bucharest mayor @NicusorDanRO by @AndreiPopoviciu and me politico.eu/article/romani…
Read our cross-border investigation into Congo's mostly Romanian mercenary outfit. Marked by untrained recruits & avoidable deaths, the deployment ended in chaos in late January after the M23 captured Goma. “It was a circus,” says one ex-merc. theguardian.com/global-develop…