What South Africa is up against in DRC
By Thomas Mandrup The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Monusco, is ending after 20 years. It will be replaced...
First they destroyed the sit-in, then the whole city. Now Khartoum will need years of rebuilding
There has been a continued escalation in fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The destruction of the capital Khartoum continues – physically, economically, socially...
Nairobi: pointing towards the sky, it also points towards the future
By Melissa Wanjiru-Mwita The Hilton Hotel was Nairobi’s first skyscraper. The iconic cylindrical tower was opened in 1969 by President Jomo Kenyatta, six years after...
The destroyed Ministry of Higher Education A few days to come, the ongoing conflict in Sudan between the Sudan Army Force (SAF) and the paramilitary...
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...
