Addis Ababa correspondent, Bloomberg News, and independent analyst, Ethiopia & greater Horn of Africa. CV: Consultant, advisor in international commercial disputes, many London, New York, Brussels consultancies, international arbitration, litigation, corporate investigations, and investment, security, and political intelligence briefs throughout the Horn of Africa, Egypt, and Maghreb (2015-18); prognostic analysis, Yangon, Myanmar, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, command-and-control from China’s base in Djibouti and People’s Liberation Army’s Western and Southern Theatre commands (2018); based in Cairo, Tunis, Algiers, Paris, London, correspondent, Africa Confidential (2013-16); Egypt consultant, Center for International Development at Harvard University (2015); Marjorie Deane fellow, Financial Times (2013); Egypt’s $9.4bn. slush funds exposé (2015), honours including citations from Overseas Press Club of America, Morton Frank Award for Best magazine international business news reporting, European Press Prize. Education: London School of Economics; Columbia Law School; Columbia Journalism School (2008-12). Ethiopia cell/WhatsApp +251 909 775 901; nizar.manek.hoa@gmail.com; nmanek2@bloomberg.net; @japanizar