Background
Hartley was born in Nairobi in 1965.
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Aidan Hartley
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He attended Sherborne School, in Dorset, England. He studied English at Balliol College, Oxford University and went on to the School of Oriental and African Studies, (SOAS) to study African politics and history.
Career
As a foreign correspondent for the Reuters news agency, Hartley covered Africa in the 1990s - wars in Somalia, famine in Ethiopia and genocide in Rwanda. He made nearly thirty documentaries for the Channel 4 Television award-winning current affairs series Unreported World and "Dispatches". In 2013 he retired from mainstream journalism to focus on private business affairs and book writing.
He guest writes for the "Wild Life" column of The Spectator.
Hartley serves as an adviser in the United Kingdom-based, oil-exploration company Soma Oil and Gas Holdings Limited., which is chaired by Baron Howard and active in Somalia, and in which Hartley is a minority shareholder. The company is currently under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office for "payments to key officials in the Somali oil ministry.".
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Kenya