Today, my story on Yemen’s many escalating problems publishes in the World Policy Journal. It’s an intimate look into the barrage of issues that plague the nation that perhaps the biggest imports last year were refugee’s and extremists.
Yemen may not yet be front-page news, but it’s a being watched intensely these days in capitals worldwide. [...]
Some of my coverage of Yemen is in today’s BBC Middle East News. Click here to see it.
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Photography and story by Micah Albert
As we approached a hastily constructed roadblock outside one of the violence-wracked cities of Kenya, the chaotic scene resembled a war zone.
Thousands of people were fleeing the city of Eldoret. Vehicles burned, smoked billowed from every direction, power lines dangled from poles, and a few dead bodies lay by the [...]
