Doyle was one of the few correspondents to slip into Kigali before the airport was closed and was the only journalist to report continuously throughout the genocide.
[3] His other work includes co-editor of coverage on the 1996 United States presidential election and training of Eastern European journalists in Moldova.
[2] In 2004, Doyle received a United Nations Correspondents Association / UN Foundation UNCA Excellence in Journalism Award in the category "Reporting on Humanitarian and Developmental Affairs", with his producer Dan McMillan.
[6] Doyle has stated that he is uncomfortable being described as an "Africa expert", noting in 1998: "The little I have learnt about this place makes me realise that I am very ignorant about it.
Anyone who claims to be an 'expert' on Africa – as if it were a homogeneous region where simple rules apply – is either arrogant or just plain silly.