'It's both brave and welcome that he is ready to be open about PTSD'
Fergal Keane reports for news programmes such as The Andrew Marr show
The BBC's Africa editor Fergal Keane is stepping down from his role due to post-traumatic stress disorder . His diagnosis was the result of"several decades of work in conflict zones around the world", said the BBC's head of newsgathering, Jonathan Munro.Keane, who was awarded an OBE for his journalism in 1996, will continue to report for BBC News but in a new role.Munro told staff that the reporter had been supported"by friends and colleagues in News, as well as receiving professional medical advice," after his diagnosis.
Keane joined the BBC in 1989 as the corporation's Northern Ireland correspondent, and later covered South Africa and Asia for the corporation before being appointed Africa editor.Another correspondent, the BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen, has previously spoken about his own diagnosis of PTSD. "I've suffered from depression and a lot of it has related to things that have cropped up in my working life... I had the symptoms of PTSD,"
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