When police start throwing stones
When policemen become rioters. This picture in the Kenyan Standard of the 20th of November shows it all. On that day the Supreme court declined...
God has lost the key to make rain in Turkana
A dark cloud emerges above the cruel landscape of sand, stones, rocks and thorny bushes. On the plains as dry as cardboard live the...
New tactics of Nigerian army drives Boko Haram away but keeps the population hostage
The helicopter lands on a field that is littered with bullets. We have arrived in Gwoza, an area in northeastern Nigeria where only military...
Fighting against the demons created by Boko Haram
Violent memories rage in their heads, as if possessed by demons. Every night Amina, a young woman, falls into a deep hole. Because two...
The child captives of Boko Haram: “Suddenly we were all alone”
We agreed to meet at the zoo in Maiduguri. There, the two girls aged nine and seventeen and the thirteen-year-old boy feel comfortable talking...
Pygmies: How the oldest people of the world became the poorest of the poorest
Winding rivers make their way through the rainforest. A fisherman casts his net into the steaming brown stream. "U-aah, u-aah" comes from the river’s...
‘One day there will be an uprising in Kenya. Things have to change’
Robert 'Rowbow' Ochola(Photo Petterik Wiggers) Introduction: With a new constitution since 2010 and with social media as a new tool for communication, Kenyan politics has been...
We must not give up on revolutionary optimism in Kenya
Introduction: Kenyan former chief justice Willy Mutunga speaks out. “We must not give up on revolutionary optimism”, he warns in this piece. Since a new...
The invading cows can’t be stopped anymore
The gate stands wide open and the fence is destroyed on this normally heavily guarded farm. At the entrance there are some empty cartridges....
