Arnaud De Decker is a Belgian journalist and international reporter with a focus on conflict, environment, migration and human rights.

He was born and raised in Brussels, the city that partially shaped him to who he is today and where he still lives. His work is mostly published in Dutch and French but he is also fluent in English and has notions of Spanish.

Arnaud’s work focuses on conflicts taking place around the world. He has been working all over Ukraine since the very beginning of the Russian invasion (2022), documenting the armed resistance and the impact on the civilian population. He spent most of his time in the eastern Donbas region, working as a correspondent for Het Laatste Nieuws and Het Nieuwsblad.

In recent years Arnaud reported from different countries including Mexico, Colombia, Guinea, and Morocco. He has written about the terrible flooding that hit Nepal in August 2017 and the situation in Turkey, where journalists and civilians where massively arrested during that same year after the failed coup.

His work is published in international media including Al Jazeera, Trouw, De Standaard, La Libre Belgique, De Morgen, Knack, VICE and others.

He graduated from the Erasmushogeschool in Brussels where he obtained a bachelor’s in journalism (2017). After that, he did a master in Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2019) and a postgraduate in International Investigative Journalism at the Thomas More Hogeschool (2020).

Arnaud De Decker

Info

Name
Arnaud De Decker
Title
Journalist
Expertise
Conflict, Environment, Migration & Human Rights
Country
Belgium
City
Brussels

Supported projects

Welcome in Crypto country

  • Finance
  • Technology

EL ZONTE - El Salvador is the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as its official currency: "One thing is certain: it is here to stay."

Europe's car graveyard

  • Environment

CONAKRY - Every year, hundreds of thousands of discarded and polluting cars from all over Europe are shipped from Belgium to West Africa. There the wrecks, which pose a threat to the health and safety of the population, can continue to travel hundreds of thousands of kilometres. Attempts to tackle this trade have come to nothing. Simon Oeyen and Arnaud De Decker went to Conakry, the capital of Guinea, in search of our old wrecks.

Nepal, after the dike breach

  • Environment
Nepal was badly hit by deadly floods in August. Entire villages have been swept away, thousands of families still survive from the aid industry. Mainly rice, clean water, and tens are distributed to assist the families.