257:. In 2009 Ferguson travelled to northern Yemen to report for CNN on Houthi rebel incursions into Saudi territory and resulting Saudi airstrikes inside Yemen. The following year she returned to Yemen to cover the US and British militaries partnerships with Yemeni Government forces in fighting Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular, the Yemeni franchise of Al Qaeda. In 2010 Ferguson was one of the first foreign reporters to embed with African Union peacekeeping forces in Mogadishu as they battled Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabab militants, returning in 2011 to cover the mostly Ugandan forces' "Battle For Mogadishu" from the front lines. Later that year she travelled to the North-South Sudan border and reported for CNN as fighting broke out and displaced thousands ahead of the country's official division later in 2011.
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and famine gripping the country. Traveling across the country by plane, car and canoe to both government and rebel controlled areas, her series of reports for the NewsHour examined ethnic cleansing at the hands of government soldiers, rape as a weapon of war, and the man-made nature of the country's
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