Ever since Steve Dennis sued the Norwegian Refugee Council over its handling of the kidnapping of four NRC staff from the Dadaab camp in northern Kenya, the security of NGO workers has become high priority. Dennis, who was kidnapped in 2012, won the case in 2015. One NGO…

In the mid 1990s when digital cameras were a thing of the future, I sometimes went to the Nairobi Hospice to take photos of those in its care. I always went on a Thursday, which was a sort of open day, when family, friends and patients came together for lunch…

When I think about the past 15 years or so, working in the humanitarian field in East Africa, I remember people I met, places I visited and incidents that happened, as I moved around the region.  One such memory was from 2006 or 2007 - I’m not sure which. The…