Currently I’m working on two reportage stories from Somaliland. Here is a preview from coast town Berbera.
Category Archives: Africa
Addis Ababa is awesome! Construction sites everywhere. They really build a light rail system through town. Many houses were removed to create space for the fly-overs and new buildings. Here some impressions from the capital of Ethiopia.
I’m on assignment for a German newspaper on one of Africa’s largest markets. Shakira Nalumansi, 22 years, sells bedsheets here. Formerly called Owino Market, St. Balikuddembe Market is one of the largest markets in Eastern Africa. More than 7,000 booths that line the chaotic alleys of Owino offer everything what people need for life. The largest section is the second hand fashion trade. With 15 percent most of them come from the USA, around 8,500 tons every year.
On assignment for the Bloomberg magazine in Kasanvu – Kanyogoga slum in Kampala.
Taking a cityscape for SPIEGEL magazine. Kampala is awesome!
It’s LaBa street art festival in Kampala. I was there to cover the fashion show.
I’m on assignment for SPIEGEL magazine in the clean rooms and laboratories of a Pharmaceutical firm in Kampala. QCI produces anti malarials and anti retrovirals.
I’m embedded with the Ugandan forces in Central African Republic hunting the LRA rebels. Leaded by Joseph Kony the Lord’s Resistance Army abducted 66,000 children and is responsible for the internal displacements of more than two million people. The photo shows one of the soldiers protecting his face from annoying flies in the bush.
William Groth, the construction manager of the new Bujagali Hydropower Plant stands on the dam a few days before the first turbine is switched on.
I’m on assignment for the Süddeutsche Zeitung far in the North of Uganda. Here a new form of epilepsy is spreading. Children start nodding, have hallucinations and are apathic. The new sickness is currently completely unknown for doctors.
There are national elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Therefore I am in Kinshasa checking the polling stations.
Vital Kamerhe speakinig to his supporters at a campaign rally in Goma, DR Congo.
Electoral officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo prepare ballot material for the presidential election at a MOUSCO warehouse at Goma airport.
Woodcutter cutting unnatural eucalyptus trees in Gishwati Forest. The forest is a protected reserve in the north-western part of Rwanda. During the Rwandan Genocide, refugees arrived in Gishwati Forest and began clearing it, often for subsistence farming. Reforestation efforts in the past few years have increased the remnant native forest to about 2,500 acres (10 km²).
