Leela Jacinto


Leela Jacinto is an award-winning international news reporter at France 24 specializing in the Middle East and South Asia.
Articles by Leela Jacinto
Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh gives a speech addressing his supporters during a rally as his political party, the General People's Congress, marks 35 years since its founding, at Sabaeen Square in the capital Sanaa on Aug. 24.
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Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh gives a speech addressing his supporters during a rally as his political party, the General People's Congress, marks 35 years since its founding, at Sabaeen Square in the capital Sanaa on Aug. 24. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Turkish anti riot police officers escort Turkish soldiers who allegedly took part in a military coup as they are leaving the courthouse at Bakirkoy district in Istanbul on July 16, 2016. 
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan battled to regain control over Turkey on July 16, 2016 after a coup that claimed more than 250 lives, bid by discontented soldiers, as signs grew that the most serious challenge to his 13 years of dominant rule was faltering. / AFP / OZAN KOSE        (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Turkish anti riot police officers escort Turkish soldiers who allegedly took part in a military coup as they are leaving the courthouse at Bakirkoy district in Istanbul on July 16, 2016. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan battled to regain control over Turkey on July 16, 2016 after a coup that claimed more than 250 lives, bid by discontented soldiers, as signs grew that the most serious challenge to his 13 years of dominant rule was faltering. / AFP / OZAN KOSE (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)
Meral Aksener, candidate for the leadership of the Turkish opposition party Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), delivers a speech during a "NO" campaign meeting on April 8, 2017, in Ankara, a week ahead of a constitutional referendum.  
On April 16, 2017, the Turkish public will vote on whether to change the current parliamentary system into an executive presidency.  / AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN        (Photo credit should read ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Meral Aksener, candidate for the leadership of the Turkish opposition party Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), delivers a speech during a "NO" campaign meeting on April 8, 2017, in Ankara, a week ahead of a constitutional referendum. On April 16, 2017, the Turkish public will vote on whether to change the current parliamentary system into an executive presidency. / AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN (Photo credit should read ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Former French president and losing candidate of the right-wing Les Republicains party primaries ahead of the 2017 presidential election, Nicolas Sarkozy leaves his offices in a car on November 21, 2016 in Paris.
Sarkozy's defeat at the hands of his former premier Fillon, a man he once nicknamed "Mr Nobody", marked what appeared to be an ignominious end to the ex-president's forty years in politics.  / AFP / GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT        (Photo credit should read GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images)
Former French president and losing candidate of the right-wing Les Republicains party primaries ahead of the 2017 presidential election, Nicolas Sarkozy leaves his offices in a car on November 21, 2016 in Paris. Sarkozy's defeat at the hands of his former premier Fillon, a man he once nicknamed "Mr Nobody", marked what appeared to be an ignominious end to the ex-president's forty years in politics. / AFP / GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT (Photo credit should read GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images)
French President Francois Hollande leaves the stage after a speech as part of the ceremonies to mark the 70th anniversary of the Allied landing in Provence, on August 15, 2014 aboard the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier off the coast of Toulon, southern France. Two months after D-Day, the Allied invasion of southern France pushed the exhausted Nazi army back towards Germany and hastened the end of World War II in Europe. AFP PHOTO / ALAIN JOCARD -AFP PHOTO/ ALAIN JOCARD / AFP / ALAIN JOCARD        (Photo credit should read ALAIN JOCARD/AFP/Getty Images)
French President Francois Hollande leaves the stage after a speech as part of the ceremonies to mark the 70th anniversary of the Allied landing in Provence, on August 15, 2014 aboard the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier off the coast of Toulon, southern France. Two months after D-Day, the Allied invasion of southern France pushed the exhausted Nazi army back towards Germany and hastened the end of World War II in Europe. AFP PHOTO / ALAIN JOCARD -AFP PHOTO/ ALAIN JOCARD / AFP / ALAIN JOCARD (Photo credit should read ALAIN JOCARD/AFP/Getty Images)
ANKARA, TURKEY - JUNE 27 :  President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at Ramadan fast-breaking dinner at presidential complex in Ankara, Turkey on June 27, 2016. (Photo by
ANKARA, TURKEY - JUNE 27 : President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at Ramadan fast-breaking dinner at presidential complex in Ankara, Turkey on June 27, 2016. (Photo by
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 24: Afghan security forces patrol the area during the clash against Taliban militants in Nanhargar district of Kabul, Afghanistan, on November 24, 2014. At least 35 Taliban militant were killed by Afghan forces. (Photo by )
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 24: Afghan security forces patrol the area during the clash against Taliban militants in Nanhargar district of Kabul, Afghanistan, on November 24, 2014. At least 35 Taliban militant were killed by Afghan forces. (Photo by )
Moroccans and their donkeys head to the village of Taghdouine to buy supplies for their remote village on March 5, 2016 in el-Haouz province in the High Atlas Mountains south of the capital of Marrakesh.
When using well-known search engines, one can find very few information about Taghzirt village. And while tourists from all around the world enjoy the sun warm days and the snow-covered view of the nearby mountains from Marrakesh, hundreds of villagers suffer from the harshness of winter and isolation, due to the state of the roads leading to it. Many villagers find it hard to access food, medical health and education. / AFP / FADEL SENNA        (Photo credit should read FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images)
Moroccans and their donkeys head to the village of Taghdouine to buy supplies for their remote village on March 5, 2016 in el-Haouz province in the High Atlas Mountains south of the capital of Marrakesh. When using well-known search engines, one can find very few information about Taghzirt village. And while tourists from all around the world enjoy the sun warm days and the snow-covered view of the nearby mountains from Marrakesh, hundreds of villagers suffer from the harshness of winter and isolation, due to the state of the roads leading to it. Many villagers find it hard to access food, medical health and education. / AFP / FADEL SENNA (Photo credit should read FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Riot police stand on the Place de la Nation in Paris on February 9, 2016, during a demonstration by non-licensed private hire cab drivers, known in France as VTC (voitures de tourisme avec chauffeur or tourism vehicles with chauffeur).
VTC drivers continued a fifth day of protests on February 9 against measures granted by the French prime minister to taxi drivers.  / AFP / Geoffroy Van der Hasselt        (Photo credit should read GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images)
Riot police stand on the Place de la Nation in Paris on February 9, 2016, during a demonstration by non-licensed private hire cab drivers, known in France as VTC (voitures de tourisme avec chauffeur or tourism vehicles with chauffeur). VTC drivers continued a fifth day of protests on February 9 against measures granted by the French prime minister to taxi drivers. / AFP / Geoffroy Van der Hasselt (Photo credit should read GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images)
French President Francois Hollande speaks during a joint press conference with US President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 24, 2015.   AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM        (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
French President Francois Hollande speaks during a joint press conference with US President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 24, 2015. AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stands on stage after a speech at the end of a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of Jelaleddin Mevlana Rumi, Sufi mystic, poet and founder of the sufism, on December 13,2013, at Ulker Sports Arena in Istanbul. The dervishes are adepts of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that preaches tolerance and a search for understanding. Those who whirl, like planets around the sun, turn dance into a form of prayer. Some say the whirling dervishes belong more to the central, conservative city of Konya, where the father of Sufism, Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, lived in the 13th century, than to the cosmopolitan modern city. AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE        (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stands on stage after a speech at the end of a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of Jelaleddin Mevlana Rumi, Sufi mystic, poet and founder of the sufism, on December 13,2013, at Ulker Sports Arena in Istanbul. The dervishes are adepts of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that preaches tolerance and a search for understanding. Those who whirl, like planets around the sun, turn dance into a form of prayer. Some say the whirling dervishes belong more to the central, conservative city of Konya, where the father of Sufism, Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, lived in the 13th century, than to the cosmopolitan modern city. AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)
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