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John Wessels
Photographer based in Kinshasa
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  • AFP / John Wessels
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Life in a time of Ebola

Tuesday 4 December 2018

Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Take a deadly contagious disease that spreads on contact. Drop it into an area surrounded by jungle, where armed groups vie for control over remote corners. Add a population exhausted by decades of conflict, weary of outsiders and suspicious of Westerners clad in protective suits erecting camps to treat this illness, camps from which their loved ones often don’t come out alive.

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Reporting from somewhere

Wednesday 25 April 2018

"Suffering and triumph on a massive scale. All of it under-reported. And frustration. Frustration that no-one seems to be paying attention. That about sums up my posting to the Congo so far," writes John Wessels, a photographer based in Kinshasa.

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