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.
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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).
