abstract:Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is an American journalist who was the West Africa bureau chief of The New York Times, based in Dakar, Senegal, from 2005-2009.She has won many awards, most recently the Livingston award in 2009.
After the battle against pro-government troops, the Darfur rebel commander "searched the soldiers' decomposing faces for an aquiline nose, fair complexion or fine, straight hair" all telltale Arab features, wrote Times reporter LydiaPolgreen.