By Tamara Antona Jimeno & Ismael Crespo Martínez Kenyan photojournalist Mohamed Amin (1943-1996) rose to fame for documenting the 1984 famine in neighbouring Ethiopia with powerful images of the...
Kenyan pastoralists fight for a future adapted to climate change
By Peyton Fleming Pastoralism provides much of the milk and protein consumed in Kenya, but it faces a perilous future especially from climate change but...
“Don’t burn us”. The horrors of Ardamata
“Words are inadequate to describe the horrors in Sudan,” said Clementine Nkweta-Salami of the UN humanitarian organization OCHA recently in New York. “What happens...
‘Everyone knows somebody who has been kidnapped’: Inside Nigeria’s banditry epidemic
Text and pictures taken Obi Anyadike, Senior editor, Africa at the New Humanitarian The two men slumped, dejected, against the wall of the house to...
A very fragile peace one year after
Photo Petterik Wiggers By Fred Harter of the Humanitarian As a rebel soldier, 24-year-old Danayit fought in some of the fiercest battles of the recent civil...
Peace or justice, punishment or reconciliation?LRA fighters get amnesty
Dozens of fighters affiliated with the terror group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), including individuals involved in grave offenses, have been repatriated to Uganda...
Even refugees should have control over their futures
By Adior Ibrahim This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/first-person/2023/10/10/flipping-narrative-how-id-card-shapes-refugees-life Have you ever stopped to think how the identity card you carry in...
Are Kenyan men losing their masculinity?
Kimani Charagu Kaigai (66) reclines upon the tender grass, which serves as the gathering spot for old men. Meanwhile, his wife assumes a crouched...
Sudan:Why do you hide behind my back? So as not to be killed or tracked?
“Why do you follow me like a shadow?” “Why soldier do you make shield of me?” _ Dr. Ahmed Gumma Siddiek “The manifestations of militarization in civic life were visible long before” _ Civilians...
