I'm an investigative and longform journalist currently based in Berlin where I cover migration, security and human rights. In 2019, I received a European Cross Border grant from Journalismfund.eu as part of a team and an EU Migration Media Award. Previous grants/awards: International Reporting Project Africa Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution fellowship on Sudan, the German Otto Brenner Preis for investigative reporting (as part of a team), Anne LaBastille Writing Residency for creative nonfiction, and an Investigative Journalism for Europe cross-border team grant. I'm also a Senior Editor at Africa is a Country.
Since Chancellor Angela Merkel's government decided in 2015 to temporarily open its border to asylum-seekers and admit close to one million people at the height of what became known as "Europe's refugee crisis," Germany has engaged in a series of impassioned and sometimes ferocious arguments over immigration.
Across Italy, some 10,000 migrants and refugees are living in squats. In search of shelter, many have joined vulnerable Italians in occupying empty buildings. The housing crisis is not an accident. It is part of a deliberate strategy by the government to make Italy as inhospitable to migrants as possible.
The European Union is about to become a lot safer - at least on paper. Lawmakers are set to approve plans for an enormous new database that will collect biometric data on almost all non-EU citizens in Europe's visa-free Schengen area.
As controlling migration rapidly becomes the EU's top priority, it's ready to pay African governments to prevent refugees from reaching Europe-even if that means using paramilitaries to stop them. Caitlin L. Chandler ▪ Summer 2018 Khartoum used to be a city where you could disappear.
The Sudanese protesters' victory built on a long history of opposition to the country's dictatorship. Now, they are determined to create a civilian government and avoid military rule. Caitlin L. Chandler ▪ April 25, 2019 Kober is the largest prison in Sudan.
As millions of dollars in EU funds flow into Sudan to stem African migration, asylum seekers say they are increasingly trapped, living in a perpetual state of fear and exploitation in this key transit country.
Current Issue Amanuel is slender and fit, with curly black hair and a noticeably gentle demeanor. In Eritrea, he trained and worked as a nurse. As a young man he was in constant danger of lifelong re-conscription into the military, which in Eritrea, the UN has said, constitutes slave labor.
Daniel was 19 when he began his mandatory service, stationed at the notorious Sawa military base. Within two weeks, he developed chronic diarrhea from the harsh conditions; he dropped from 140 pounds to less than 100 in a matter of weeks. Meanwhile, his defiant temperament constantly drew the officers' anger.
But also I think just imagining a positive future is important, because the world in many ways is getting better. The average person, the poorest quarter of the planet, consume far more calories than they did 50 years ago, they are living longer, the gap between the average education of boys and girls is diminishing.
" Every day in Syria a new plane dropped a bomb on us. We ran away [to another part of Syria]; then bombs also fell there, so we ran here. This is a very bad climate-there is a shortage of water.
With the lifting of US sanctions last October, aid organisations hoped the Sudanese government would ease restrictions on aid operations and allow access to parts of the country long kept off limits.
An interview with author Emmanuel Iduma on traveling through twenty African cities. Interview by Caitlin L Chandler There is a scene in A Stra n ger's Pose , Emmanuel Iduma 's new nonfiction book, when he wanders the Moroccan city, Rabat, with a companion who offers to, "show you how Nigerians live here."
Stationed at a field hospital in Jordan run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Caitlin Chandler is bearing witness to the seemingly endless war across the border, one patient at a time, and refusing to look away.
It's not the waiting that is destroying Hafiz Abdalla, although existing in the strange limbo between asylum seeker and German resident is constantly disorienting. It is how no one seems aware of the violence in Sudan, the lack of news coverage of the war, and his inability to communicate in German.
Aster's one-story house in southern Eritrea was painted white and teal. Five front windows overlooked a lawn, where her four daughters could play and donkeys grazed. Her father obtained permission from the government to build in 2002; they began building in 2013.
Alex Assali woke up in his small Berlin flat on the morning of November 22, 2015, and checked his email. There were 1,000 messages waiting for him. The day before, a friend had uploaded a photograph to Facebook of Assali feeding homeless people on the streets of Berlin.
Tariku Debela, in jeans, walks carefully through the streets of Eastleigh, Nairobi. Photo by Ebba Abbamurti. On a warm evening last month, Tariku Debela was walking home from dinner in the immigrant enclave of Eastleigh, Nairobi, when he was jumped by four men who took his phone and more than $200 in cash.
In July 2010, I attended the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria. Representatives of the Gates Foundation's HIV team set-up shop inside the venue with a private conference room. For those of us working for civil society organizations, a meeting with the Gates Foundation was highly coveted yet illusive - you had to know someone who knew someone.
In January 2012, a 29-year-old Iranian refugee, Muhammed Rahsapar, committed suicide at a refugee center in Würzburg, a town in central Germany. His death sparked an outcry at the conditions in which refugees were housed.
In August 1992, a mob of neo-Nazis attacked a hostel for foreigners in the northern German city of Rostock, hurling stones and petrol bombs. The attack lasted for four days, encouraged by an estimated 3,000 cheering spectators. After two days, the police left the scene; the mob then set fire to a building housing Vietnamese workers and their families.
Five men lay on the ground. Some are curled into themselves, others stretched in straight lines. Slowly, heads rise; the men sit up and begin to lift a hand or arm. Some swing their legs around in circular half-moons, others push off against the floor and deftly enter handstands, using canes to support their movements.