Antoaneta Roussi is a multimedia journalist based in London, UK. She specializes in European politics, environment and science. Her freelance work has taken her from the training grounds of Tibet's national soccer team, to inside Russian artists' studios. Her work has appeared in BBC, NPR, Reuters and Salon among others.
Samuel Berhe, like many other Eritreans, fled the country some years ago to escape mandatory national service, which the government made indefinite following the 1998-2000 border war with Ethiopia. The war cost the countries an estimated 100,000 lives, while conscription created a generation of Eritrean refugees.