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Until the corn grows back

Climate change is destroying the harvests of hundreds of thousands of small farmers, fuelling a humanitarian crisis: in Guatemala, one child in two suffers from chronic malnutrition, the highest rate in Latin America and the Caribbean. More than four million people in the country lack adequate food, mainly affecting the indigenous Mayan communities who are […]

Israel–Hamas war-2023-2024

Aftermath of Isreali strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis

Fire and Ashes

One of the recurring concerns with the arrival of the summer season is the increase in forest fires, both in quantity and violence. This is yet another consequence of climate change. Calculations carried out by EFFIS (European Forest Fire Information System) indicate that the 2022 fire season is the worst this century: in less than […]

The war in Syria and its impact on civilians.

A photo project shows the war in northwestern Syria and the indiscriminate bombing of cities full of residents, which leads to the death and injury of dozens of civilians and forces people to flee after burying the victims. And The bombing and repeated displacement lead to the disruption of work and increase the rate of […]

The terror of war

Since March 2022, Ukrainian communities have been stagnated by the atrocities of Russian military invading the country with deadly missiles, artillery and bullets. Such merciless attacks have caused irreversible impacts on the Ukrainian livelihood, killing tens of thousands of adults, children and those who were enlisted to fight back, whilst injuring countless innocent, damaging enormous […]

WARscapes

On February 24, 2022, the troops of the Russian Federation attacked Ukraine. From that day, the most important military conflict since the World War II takes place just outside the boarders of my country. The conflict which, from its very beginning, has been shaping the geopolitics of not only region, but also the whole world. […]

Adenovirus outbreak – a suppressed news of child health emergency in West Bengal

At the beginning of March 2023, a virus outbreak news was roaming all over West Bengal named Adenovirus. Flu-like symptoms, fever, cold & cough, breathing problems, and fatigue in children were reported all over Kolkata and West Bengal. Child hospitals were nowhere ready to face such a spike in cases with similar symptoms. The poor […]

Life and death walk side by side

On February 6, 2023, two strong earthquakes of magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 occurred in Turkey. The disaster claimed more than 50 thousand lives. I arrived at the epicenter of the earthquake, the city of Antakya (Turkey) on the same day and began to document the events. The city turned into a ghost, the air was […]

In Syria, the tragedy never ends

On 6 February 2023, a series of massive earthquakes struck south-eastern Turkey and northwest Syria. These and hundreds of aftershocks caused significant destruction on each side of the border, claiming thousands of lives across both countries and damaging essential infrastructure, including health facilities. These have been some of the strongest earthquakes to hit the region […]

Syria’s earthquake: the trajectory of tragedy

On February 6 2023, nearly 6000 people were killed in Syria when a 7.8-magnitude earth quake hit the north west of the country and neighbouring Turkey. The Syrian government reported 1,414 people were killed in areas under its control, while Turkish-backed officials in Syria put the death toll at 4,537 throughout rebel-held areas of the […]