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2 weeks ago | dandc.eu

Graffiti artist Shamsia Hassani once painted colourful murals on the walls and facades of Kabul city. Today, she lives in exile, but she keeps on painting, trying to give hope to the people of her homeland.

2 months ago | dandc.eu | Derrick Silimina |Katharina Wilhelm

Zambia is struggling with youth unemployment. Many young people who cannot find work end up in crime or fall into alcoholism and other forms of drug abuse. This is how 35-year-old Bernard Kabasanyi lived until he moved away from his rural home on the outskirts of Kalumbila district, about 730 kilometres north of Lusaka, the country’s capital. ”I realised that if our continued abuse of illegal brew didn’t stop, we would live a wasted life forever.

Jan 21, 2025 | dandc.eu | Kizito Makoye

Aisha Shabani sells vegetables at the busy Mchikichini market in Dar es Salaam. The 31-year-old market vendor has learned to navigate Tanzania’s highly competitive informal economy. “You have to use all tactics to win customers,” she says. But for Shabani and many other women, competition is not the only hurdle. “Men keep touching my breasts or trying to hug me,” she says. “If I didn’t have to earn a living, I would rather give up.”Her story reflects the reality of many women in Tanzania.

Dec 20, 2024 | dandc.eu | Alan Robles

How is it possible to sleep through the night knowing what Israel is doing in Gaza? How does it feel waking up knowing the nightmares won’t stop in the daytime? The images are searing: wounded, speechless fathers stumbling in the ruins, carrying the fragments of their sons and daughters in a sheet; weeping children tugging on the lifeless bodies of their parents. A girl who is first trapped in a car, then murdered by soldiers who riddle the vehicle with hundreds of bullets.

Aug 20, 2023 | dandc.eu

Bolivia has an extraordinary amount of biodiversity. A good fourth of the country’s territory is dedicated to protecting it. Yet numerous human activities are posing a threat.