South Africa's 90-year-old journalist Frans Hugo delivers news in the desert every week. He makes a 1,200 kilometre round trip across the semi-arid Karoo region to deliver three local papers - The Messenger, Die Noordwester and Die Oewernuus.
But he isn't the first one, here are 10 journalists who reported from the most riskiest places ever:
- Marie Colvin
Marie Colvin was an American journalist who reported from some of the most dangerous and conflict-ridden places in the world, including Kosovo, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, and Syria. She lost an eye while covering the Sri Lankan civil war in 2001, but continued to report from conflict zones until her death in 2012, when she was killed by a shell attack in Syria.
- James Foley
James Foley was an American journalist who reported from conflict zones around the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. He was kidnapped in 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war and was later beheaded by ISIS in 2014.
- Marie-Josée Croze
Marie-Josée Croze is a Canadian journalist who has reported from some of the most dangerous and volatile places in the world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Amnesty International Press Award.
- Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist who has reported from conflict zones around the world, including Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. She is known for her fearless reporting and has won numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Peabody.
- Marie-Madeleine Fourcade
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was a French journalist and resistance fighter who reported from Nazi-occupied France during World War II. She was one of the few women to lead a resistance network and was eventually captured by the Gestapo, but managed to escape and continue her work.
- Daphne Caruana Galizia
Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese journalist who reported on corruption and organised crime in Malta. She was assassinated in 2017 by a car bomb and her death has been widely condemned as an attack on press freedom.
- John Cantlie
John Cantlie is a British journalist who has reported from conflict zones around the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. He was kidnapped by ISIS in 2012 and has appeared in a number of propaganda videos, but his current whereabouts are unknown.
- Matthew Power
Matthew Power was an American journalist who reported from some of the most remote and dangerous places in the world, including war-torn countries and isolated tribes. He died in 2014 while reporting from Uganda.
- Janine di Giovanni
Janine di Giovanni is an American-born journalist who has reported from conflict zones around the world, including Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the National Magazine Award and the James Cameron Award.
- Gwen Ifill
Gwen Ifill was an American journalist and television news anchor who reported from conflict zones around the world, including Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. She was the first African American woman to anchor a major news program and won numerous awards for her work, including an Emmy and a Peabody.
Hugo has been doing this for some four decades, armed with a flask of coffee, some boiled eggs and a towel to shield his bare legs from the scorching sun. He brings news to towns and villages dotting this vast, parched back-country. Hugo has kept some historic small-town titles alive, at a time where many printed newspapers around the world are struggling to survive the digital age.
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