Exalted pilgrims of Sheik Hussein.
From all parts of the Horn of Africa,they are thousands to converge every year, towards the mausoleum of Sheik Hussein.In the heart of the Ethiopian highlands,a unique partition of the mysteries of faith takes place on some days, in a secret held date. To honor the memory of a soufi saint, ancient pagan faiths re-appear in a very strange mixity of Islam and Christendom.
A Photo story by ©Cyril le Tourneur d’Ison/LightMediation
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Zanzibar, the Treasure Island.
Docked offshore the Tanzanian coasts,the Zanzibar isle fosters a romantic and mysterious atmosphere inherited from African, Arab and European influences.The promise of an exotic journey on a legendary island, which to this day hides many secrets.
Photos and text ©Marc Dozier/LightMediation
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Sheges of Kinshasa: the sacrified children of a wounded country.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, children whatever their age, can be pushed to the streets or deliberately abandoned, they are as many targets of family anger and fear. Then, they are called sheges, a name most often synonymous with « sorcerer-children »because their families think they have brought misfortune down on them: a mother fallen victim to AIDS, ill infants, a wedding that does not happen, work not found… In a society gradually falling apart, scapegoats have to be found…
Photos and text ©Dominique Viger/LightMediation
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Cratère du Ngorongoro: le Creuset de la vie.
Souvent désigné comme la « huitième merveille du monde », le cratère du Ngorongoro en Tanzanie, offre la plus grande concentration de prédateurs de la planète abritée au creux d’une gigantesque caldera. Cette reserve biosphère de L’UNESCO, inscrite à juste titre au Patrimoine Mondial de l’Humanité, présente une cohabitation singulière entre anciens guerriers Massai et rois lions.
Photos ©Remi Benali/Lightmediation Texte ©Heather Robinson
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Oualata,a garden in the Sahara.
The sands almost wiped Oualata from human memory. In ruins only ten years ago, this former caravanserai in the Mauritanian desert has now won its formidable struggle to survive. An achievement due to the joint efforts of a Spanish humanitarian organization and the Mauritanian government, which managed to revitalize the village by setting up a vegetable garden. It is a story of rebirth.
Photos ©Pascal Meunier/Lightmediation Text ®Maud Tyckaert
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The birth of an ocean in the hottest desert on Earth.
The Danakil desert located in the Afar triangle by the name of the tribes who live there, the Afar people, in northern Ethiopia on the Erythrean border, is 155 000 km2 large. In this desert, considered as the hottest on Earth (max. 60° C) and maybe the most inhospitable, we witness in real time the spectacular genesis of an ocean! Here on a geological scale, inexorably, the African horn is drifting away from the continent, and under our eyes is undergoing one of the greatest achievement of Gaia, the creation of a mid ocean ridge within the African Great Rift Valley.
Photos and text ©Eitan Haddok/LightMediation
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Malaria, the killing Machine.
One hundred years after the discovery that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes, the indomitable disease remains Africa’s major problem. The World Heath Organisation estimates that malaria affects 300 to 500 million people and kills up to 2.7 million worldwide every year, 90% of them in sub-saharan Africa. Every five seconds, an African child dies of the disease.
Photographs ©Remi Benali/Lightmediation
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Darfour, une guerre oubliée
Darfour, une guerre oubliée
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Umoja – a women’s commune in northern Kenya.
Three hundred and eighty kilometers north of Nairobi, a clan of Samburu shephers -closely related to the Masai- have assembled in the middle of the savana for the circumcision ceremony of their young.
At sunrise, twenty adolescent boys aged between 12 to 22 undergo the rite of passage that will bring them into the adult world. Close by their sisters and cousins come before the knife as they, too, experience ritual excision. Despite the official ban on female genital mutilation introduced in Kenya since 2001, the girls know that without undergoing the ritual their chances of finding a spouse and getting married would be seriously compromised. In the midst of this, the wife of a local chief protests in vain. Rebecca Lolosoli has been campaigning against the practice of female circumcision, though her pleas fall upon deaf ears. In her forties, the charismatic Lolosoli was invited to the UN to speak on the issue so close to her heart, and happens to be founder of Umoja ( »Unity » in Swahili), a village where the law is in the hands of women…
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- Auteur Photos © Bruno Fert / In Visu / Lightmediation Text ® Christelle Dedebant
Ebola: the bat’s track !
Has the reservoir for the killer virus EBOLA finally been identified? Christophe Lepetit, photographer and veterinarian, specialized in scientifical features, has followed the scientists crew in Gabon’s rainforests during their last bat capture…
- Auteur Christophe Lepetit – LIGHTMEDIATION
- Date Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:41:39 +0200
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