“This is the first food I’ve eaten in four days,” Habiba Mohammad Hassan, a 17 year old Somali tells me as we wedged ourselves into the back of a truck with over 40 other refugees and opens a packet of high energy biscuits. Hassan, and 150 others, just spent the last two days crossing the [...]
Today I have the pleasure to introduce a friend of mine from World Policy Journal at a three-day East DRC awareness event at Johns Hopkins. Ben Pauker produced a compelling documentary for Frontline on the proliferation of small arms into DRC and its direct relationship to China. It’s extremely good and I encourage you to watch it. There is [...]
The winning image was shot in January 2008 while covering the Kenyan post-election violence. Using a Nikon D2Xs and a Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8. After spending all day in the displaced camps getting average images with not ideal light, a storm started to move in late and the light started to get interesting. With the fading [...]
I am currently in Bangui, Central African Republic through November 21st.
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News feature for UNFPA, co-authored with Shannon Egan of UNFPA - November 7, 2008. Click here to see the article
A few photos from my assignment to Chad in September.
If there is a single nation in Africa that has gone most abruptly from the most brilliant of prospects for the next quarter century to the darkest in the shortest period of time, it is Chad. Despite the start of oil production in 2003, an investment [...]
Rebels dampen prospects
Conflict, corruption fuel insurgency and deter investors
Koukou is a swampy frontier town on the southeastern edge of Chad, about 35 miles from the poorly defined border with Sudan´s West Darfur region.
There are no paved roads, and outside access this time of year - the end of the rainy season - is limited to [...]
Friends, this was sent to me recently, and I laughed out loud so many times I couldn’t help pass it on. This is some fantastic writing. If you love sarcasm like I do then you will love this. Also, as humorous as this is, I think most of this is dead on, a good strong [...]
