Guy Peterson

The Gambia’s stolen catch: How Chinese trawlers feed Europe’s seafood market In the waters off The Gambia, a ghost fleet of Chinese-owned trawlers continues to plunder the seabed, robbing Africa’s smallest mainland nation of its marine resources. Collisions with local artisana...

🎣 In the waters off The #Gambia 🇬🇲 , a ghost fleet of Chinese-owned trawlers continues to plunder the seabed, robbing Africa’s smallest mainland nation of its marine resources to feed Europe.
An investigation by @damancini.bsky.social ✍ & @guypeterson.bsky.social 📸

voxeurop.eu/en/illegal-f...

Goudkoorts moet Senegal deze keer meer opleveren De stijgende goudprijs leidt in West-Afrika tot goudkoorts. ‘Landen willen de controle over hun natuurlijke rijkdommen terugpakken’

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

In Sudan, a bride and her village celebrate love in a time of war Still recovering from the worst hunger crisis in living memory, a community in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains gathers to celebrate a marriage.

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...

Aid blocked as “unimaginable suffering” grips Sudan’s Nuba Mountains The situation is worsening as the rainy season sets in amid aid funding cuts and an escalation in fighting.

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.

On the hunt for meteorites in the far reaches of the Sahara In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

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...

Op ‘de hoogmis van de Afrikaanse cinema’ in Burkina Faso is de oorlog nooit ver weg Burkina Faso is uitgegroeid tot het centrum van terrorisme in de West-Afrikaanse Sahel. Omdat journalisten het land niet binnenkomen, is er weinig aandacht voor dat geweld. Het toonaangevende filmfest...

‘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

Another civil war looms in South Sudan It could merge with the one in neighbouring Sudan, to catastrophic effect

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-...

South Sudan on the Precipice of Renewed Full-blown War | Crisis Group 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. Regional leaders should urgently press Ki...

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-...

South Sudan on the Precipice of Renewed Full-blown War | Crisis Group 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. Regional leaders should urgently press Ki...

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 📰

Monniken in Senegal maken dit wereldwijd gewilde instrument Ruim zestig jaar geleden kregen de monniken van een Senegalees klooster als kerstcadeau een kora. Het geluid van dit typisch West-Afrikaans snaarinstrument bleek perfect aan te sluiten op hun gregoria...

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

A veiled woman wearing red sitting on a bench in a hut

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,

Sudan’s War Victims Survived Killings; Now They Face Starvation Children dying in a camp in southern Sudan shows the toll as the warring parties willfully obstruct food and other aid.

#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
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Shot for @afpphoto