Mònica Bernabé


Mònica Bernabé Fernández is a Spanish journalist known for her work as a correspondent in Afghanistan, where she lived for nearly eight years.

Biography

Mònica Bernabé studied at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2000, after her first trip to Afghanistan and Peshawar, she founded the Association for Human Rights in Afghanistan, an NGO that supports Afghan women. She was the president for 16 years, until its dissolution. Over seven years, she traveled to Afghanistan every year, until mid-2007 when she settled there, corresponding for various media outlets, including the newspaper El Mundo, Radio Nacional de España, Ràdio Associació de Catalunya 1, Canal Sur, and the Spanish service of Deutsche Welle. She lived in Afghanistan until 2014.
In 2015 she moved to Rome to take over as correspondent for El Mundo in the Italian capital. In May 2017 she joined the newspaper Ara as head of the International section.

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