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Tony Karumba
Photographer based in Nairobi, Kenya.
AFP / Tony Karumba

The last rhino standing

Friday 30 March 2018

"Ol Pejeta was somber the last time I was there. It was beautiful, under the cover of tender greenery that's characteristic of the onset of Kenya's rainy season," writes Tony Karumba, a photographer based in Nairobi.

"But gloom hung in the air. Anyone who had had a chance to interact with Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino who had just died, could sense it. His handlers, as polite and welcoming as always, seemed beside themselves."

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Across the water from Yemen

Thursday 16 April 2015

In the fishing port of Obock, in Djibouti, hundreds of people fleeing the Saudi-led air war on Yemen have been landing in skiffs at all hours of the day and night.

"I photograph the sweet smiles of the young, the questioning looks of teenagers and the deep, reserved glances of their elders. I try to work as sensitively as I can, to capture the emotions on their faces," writes AFP photographer Tony Karumba. "But as always when I am documenting someone else's pain, reporting on the nightmare their lives have become, at the back of mind there is a bleak awareness my work can make little difference to their plight."

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