France
We're moving to France! After more than eight years in Africa, Saskia, our two daughters, and I are returning to Europe. At the end of this year, we'll be leaving Dakar for Paris, where Saskia will start working as the new France correspondent for NOS.
This also means I'll be quitting as Africa correspondent for de Volkskrant at the end of this year and will be looking for new (perhaps remote) work. If you have any ideas, please send me a message.
A dispute with Algeria, announced departures from Senegal, Chad, and Ivory Coast: diplomatic friction between France and its former colonies on the African continent is mounting rapidly. Forced by anti-French sentiment, the French are seeking new allies in Anglophone Africa.\
Read the whole analysis story, a coproduction with France Correspondent Eline Huisman, on the website of De Volkskrant.
Worrying report written by Patricia Huon from Somalia, where a humanitarian disaster is still unfolding as a result of the worst drought in forty years. “We have lost everything.”
Today, her story (together with some of my photos,) can be read in the French newspaper Libération.
For Dutch news broadcaster RTL Nieuws, Saskia Houttuin and I made two reports from closed-off France. How were the French preparing for the arrival of tourists from Europe? Watch the web-only versions of the reports on the RTL Nieuws website or click on the videos below: