Afrique
Sharing Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is dying. Pollution from industry, sewage, agriculture,deforestation, climate change and over-fishing are all key elements in the demise of Africa’s largest freshwater lake. Every day, an estimated 2 million fishermen sail out in search of the coveted Nile Perch, responsible for a multi-million dollar fishing industry vital to landlocked Uganda and neighbouring Kenya and Tanzania, all of whom export their fish to the European Union and beyond. As fishstocks decline, the East African fishermen are forced to go farther towards the centre of the lake in order to catch their fish.In an attempt to reach some of the richest remaining deep-water fishing zones,fishermen are turning to Lake Victoria’s 3,000 islands, and none more so than Migingo Island. This small, one-acre island (about half the size of a football pitch) is located in the border confluence of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Territorial ownership of the island was claimed by both Uganda and Kenya, until July 2009 when an official survey team found that the island is 510 metres (1,700 ft) east of the Kenya / Uganda border. The Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni conceded the sovereignty of the island claiming that « The island belongs to Kenya…. » However the tension escalated when he added; »…but the water belongs to Uganda. »
Photos and text by Andrew McLeish/Orizon/LightMediation
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Bows facing Kalachnikov
Fulanis in northwest of Central african republic fights against the « Zaraguinas » – highwayman who sows the terror in the area – with arch and arrows, with relative success. Summit meeting with 4 chiefs of bowmen self-defense groups to be prepared to do anything to protect their villages abandoned by the authorities.
a Photo report by Teddy Seguin/LightMediation
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War over water, a conflict as old as Africa
In the northern part of the the Rift Valley in North-West Kenya,the sunshines so intensely that the land is practically barrenand water nearly absent. The scarcity of pastures and water inevitably leads to conflicts between local ethnic groups escalating intensity of strife generated by the cattle rustling tradition.
A Photo story by Alain Buu/Orizon/LightMediation
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The Christian treasures of lake Tana
Isolated from the rest of the world, the Christian priests and monks look after, since XVth century, an extremely valuable treasure: a collection of illustrated manuscripts, religiously stored in the monasteries built onthe islands of lake Tana, in Ethiopia.
Photos and text by Jean-François Lagrot/LightMediation
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Agony and Ivory: ivory trade is back…
…recent chinese immigration in Africa is undoubtly a key to understand and discover the new trading routes… and behind the trade is a serious stake : the survival of Forest elephant in Central Africa. A French veterinarian who investigated in seven African countries, tells us his story.
Photos and text by Jean-François Lagrot/LightMediation
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The sacred fishing
The heat is stifling. The men are ready, the women have made the preparations, She is waiting. She has always been waiting for them. One day every year they honor her. The Pond of Antogo,in the heart of Mali. The Lady of that African lake will give the Miracle of the Fish to them. Today.
A Photo story by Alain Buu/Orizon/LightMediation
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The Sapphire slaves by Patrick Castagnas
Ilakaka, which was formerly a small peaceful village, has become,in a few months, something of a « far west » town. A population reaching almost 100 000 due to the discovery, in 1998, of one of the biggest deposits of sapphires in the world.
a Photo story by Patrick Castagnas / LightMediation
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The new Tripoli of Africa
For years Tripoli would make the headlines, under the rubric « troublemaker » in the so-called international scene. Vilified for a long time, the capital of Libya is finally freeing itself of its satanic reputation to today aspire to the title of mentor to the whole of the Mediterranean.
Photos by Pascal Meunier / LightMediation Text by Eve Gandossi
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Timkat: the festival of the baptism
Each year on January 19, Timkat, or the festival of Epiphany,commemorates the baptism of Christ in the Jordan River. This holiday, more lavish than Christmas, is celebrated with the most pageantry in Lalibela, the « Black Jerusalem », in Ethiopia.
A Photo story by Christophe Boisvieux/LightMediation
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Africa’s glaciers gone by 2020.
Fabled equatorial icecaps will disappear within two decades,because of global warming! Africa is home to three large ice mountains : the two ice volcanoes of Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro, and the Rwenzori mountains chain at the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Uganda. A few thousand years ago,these glaciers stretched several hundred km2. Now, the ice cap has been fastly melting for decades. It is estimated that they cover today barely 5 km2 of the African continent! The fantastic ice crown described by Hans Meyer conqueror of the Kilimandjaro, « Roof of Africa » in 1889 is reduced to less than 2 km2 today. Mount Kenya reduced to less than 0.4 km2. And the glaciers of Ruwenzori represent just 1 km2 in 2005 and also could disappear by 2020.
Photos and text ©Jean Robert/Lightmediation
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