Lees de longread voor de @volkskrant.nl hier, prachtig opgemaakt door @gabrieleisenmeier.bsky.social: www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

In Sudan, @guypeterson.bsky.social and I attended a wedding that almost didn’t happen. A year ago, famine and war pushed this community to the brink. Thanks to their community, they made it happen. Our story for @csmonitor.bsky.social: www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa...

Sudan’s war is now the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis—14M displaced, famine, war crimes committed with impunity. @guypeterson.bsky.social and I reported from the Nuba Mountains, where a rebel group just allied with the genocidal RSF. Our first dispatch www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

My latest from South Sudan with @andreipopoviciu.bsky.social on the country’s largest ever Cholera outbreak.

For those needing a fun news break, I present: The meteorite hunting herders of the Sahara Meteorites fall with the same frequency around the world, but are especially easy to spot in some places. Mauritania is one of them With @guypeterson.bsky.social Free link: wapo.st/4j9Md6i

In Burkina Faso liepen fotograaf @guypeterson.bsky.social en ik een week lang rond op Fespaco, een toonaangevend filmfestival dat ondanks tien jaar terreur en twee staatsgrepen nog overeind staat. Toch voelt de oorlog nooit ver weg... Reportage voor @volkskrant.nl ➡️ www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

‘Vroeger maakten we hier films over plattelandsromantiek. Dat voelt nu niet goed meer. Iedereen kent wel iemand die aan het front is gesneuveld.’ ✍️ @saskiahouttuin.bsky.social 📷 @guypeterson.bsky.social 🗞️ @volkskrant.nl

If the peace deal collapses, fighting could quickly engulf the country. Worse still, it could merge with Sudan’s civil war across the border 👇 www.economist.com/middle-east-...

NEW CONFLICT RISK ALERT | South Sudan Sudan is on the Precipice of Renewed Full-blown War Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. www.crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-...

Tension in South Sudan is sky high. We @crisisgroup.org warn of the risk of a full-blown civil war erupting and call on the UN and regional leaders to urgently press President Kiir and Vice President Machar to de-escalate. www.crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-...

Om het tij te keren, investeerde Mauritanië (en de EU) in deze Meharisten-eenheid. ‘We zijn soldaten, maar ook hulpverleners.’ Bekijk ook de online versie op @volkskrant.nl, met beeld door @guypeterson.bsky.social, opmaak door @gabrieleisenmeier.bsky.social: www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

This past weekend, @washingtonpost.com published our 16-page special section on the Sahel — a region of the world that over the past decade has been transformed by conflict. A thread below of reporting highlights from 12+ trips to the region & each of the stories in 📰

Voor wie even wil ontsnappen aan alle ellende: dit verhaal voor @volkskrant.nl, over monniken in Senegal 🇸🇳 die wereldberoemde kora's maken, was heerlijk om te maken. Heel blij met het eindresultaat, met prachtig beeld van @guypeterson.bsky.social (geluid aan! 🎵) www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

Eén oorlog, twee talen, drie huwelijken: een verhaal voor @volkskrant.nl over liefde in tijden van conflict in het westen van Kameroen 🇨🇲 Met prachtige portretten van @guypeterson.bsky.social

The Rapid Support Forces & allied militias are carrying out sexual violence across #Sudan including in South Kordofan, with @hrw.org latest report examining dozens of cases of rape, including in the context of sexual slavery www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

4/ @voaafrica.com.web.brid.gy, @maazamengiste.bsky.social, @solomonadersso.bsky.social, @mo.ibrahim.foundation, @chinagsproject.bsky.social, @crystallising.bsky.social, @guypeterson.bsky.social, @nathaliadukhan.bsky.social, @eromoegbejule.bsky.social, @jasonkstearns.bsky.social,

#Starvation is killing 100 people a day in #Sudan, many of them children, as warring parties block assistance and #FoodAid falls short. @belkiswille.bsky.social visited a #SouthKordofan camp for the displaced and describes the toll: #SudanWar #malnutrition www.justsecurity.org/105227/sudan...

In the Nuba mountains in Sudan a displacement crisis envelops the host community after over 700,000 people stream in from the surrounding Sudan fleeing fighting between the RAF and SAF seeking refuge in an area controlled by the SPLM-N rebel group.

A first post, I’ll do some older stories and add new work as it comes. Floods along the Senegal river affected over 55,000 people after heavy rain in the Senegal River Basin leaving many villages underwater or cut off displacing tens of thousands. In October 2024 . Shot for @afpphoto