“I flew directly to Tigray. At Mekele airport, there were soldiers everywhere, even on the runway. They don't do anything, but they are there. On the way to the city, you will pass multiple checkpoints. As a Westerner, you are immediately singled out and questioned about what you’re doing here. They want to make sure that you’re not a journalist, because they do not tolerate prying eyes,” says ZOA’s emergency coordinator Hielke Zantema.
Dutch newspaper Trouw interviewed two Dutch aid workers who recently worked in Tigray, where the fight continues unabated. But no one knows exactly what is happening in the Ethiopian region. Click here to read the story.
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Front page story about locust swarms in Kenya
In today’s NRC Handelsblad and NRC Next, you can find Africa correspondent Koert Lindijer’s story about the enormous swarms of desert locusts that are on the move in East Africa. For this story, I joined Koert on a three day trip to Mwingi, a subcounty of Kitui County in northeast Kenya. One of my photos made it to the frontpages of this morning’s NRC Next and this afternoon’s NRC Handelsblad.
You can read Koert Lindijer’s ‘most read story of the day’ by following this link. To see more photos, click on this link to NRC’s ‘In Beeld’ Instagram account, or check out the photo collection below. To see more recent work I made for NRC Handelsblad, check out this blogpost. Another photo was featured in the weekend newspaper of 22 February, next to this article.
