All pictures by Joost Bastmeijer At the end of the day , beaming with confidence Salome Nzyoka walks into a nursery in Wote to pick...
Looking worried Abelmonim stands with his two young daughters among the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in front of the military complex in the...
Hunted down after leaving al-Shabaab
Abdul (35 years old) can no longer sit still. He was a fighter once in one of the most brutal terrorist groups in the...
Kill me, but tell me who you are. Plunder and terror in Eastern Congo
Aurélien Kambala in the north-eastern Congolese city of Butembo is preparing himself for his role as an election observer on Sunday*. The father puts...
On the Somali coast you never know who are the good and who are the bad guys
The admiral on the pontoon bridge focuses his binoculars on a speck in the blue-green sea. The Spanish warship the Castilla stops. Special forces...
Youth in Oromia create upheaval in Ethiopa(Photo Petterik Wiggers) Julius Owino (40) raps a tune at the start of his morning show on Ghetto Radio,...
Freedom is unknown and the future not so certain in Ethiopia
Back-lit and draped in palm leaves, Abiy Ahmed bears an uncanny resemblance to Jesus Christ in the stickers you see plastered on car bonnets,...
How foreign aid has become unwanted
Photo Petterik Wiggers Immediately upon arrival in the South Sudanese capital Juba, the sight of white relief workers is overwhelming. At the airport there are...
This is our home, say the Sengwer
The dilemma whether an indigenous people can live in a forest that is a water catchment area, stares you in the face in the...
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