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Viewfinder: Locals Examine Debris From the Ethiopian Airlines Plane Crash

Two local boys examine a pile of twisted metal gathered by workers during the continuing recovery efforts at the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 11th, 2019, in Bishoftu, Ethiopia.

Pacific Standard Staff

Viewfinder: Inside Kenya’s Floriculture Industry

A woman picks roses inside a greenhouse at Wildfire Flowers on February 13th, 2019, in Naivasha, Kenya.

Pacific Standard Staff

Viewfinder: The Aftermath of a Terrorist Attack on a Hotel in Nairobi

A woman reacts after being rescued from the Dusit Hotel on January 15th, 2019, in Nairobi, Kenya.

Pacific Standard Staff

Economics

A Small Banking Group Is Helping Kenyan Women Gain Financial Security

A savings and loan group that began in a Nairobi slum gives members economic empowerment, access to childcare, and education for their children.

Dominic Kirui

A staff member of the South African Breastmilk Reserve in Johannesburg holds a bottle of pasteurized breast milk.

Social Justice

Addressing the Technical, Political, and Religious Concerns of Human Milk Banks

Breast milk offers better nutrition than formula to infants who cannot access their mother's milk. But centers have proliferated, raising other concerns.

Andrew Green

A man makes charcoal from twigs pruned from local forest during a controlled charcoal-making exercise.

Economics

To Address a Shortage of Charcoal and Firewood a Kenyan Village Is Repurposing Human Waste

The government has banned logging in the country for three months, driving cooking fuel prices through the roof.

Reuben Okonda

Kenyan ranger of the canine unit Maseto Sampei holds his bloodhound during their trace training in the Mara Triangle, the northwestern part of Masai Mara National Reserve managed by non-profit organization Mara Conservancy.

Environment

How Detection Dogs Help Wildlife Rangers Curb Crime in the Maasai Mara National Reserve

Specially trained canines, with their outsized capacity to sniff out even well-hidden people and objects, are helping rangers at several major reserves to do their jobs better.

Sue Palminteri

Flamingoes are seen at Lake Amboseli from a spotter plane overhead during a trial run for an aerial animal census at the Amboseli National Park on June 21st, 2018. Amboseli is among the most renowned case studies in the world for elephant population and behavioral factors with the last official count, carried out in the year 2011, yielding some 1,200 animals. Preparations are underway for an aerial census over the 392-square-kilometer park with trial runs kicking off in June.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: Counting Flamingos in Southern Kenya

Flamingoes are seen at Lake Amboseli from a spotter plane overhead during a trial run for an aerial animal census at the Amboseli National Park on June 21st, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

Cherangani farmer Kongolel Masai Kangonyei with his intercropped coffee trees.

Environment

In Kenya, Agroforestry Is a Win-Win for Indigenous Communities and Conservation

Locals in one of the country's vital biodiversity hotspots have found that traditional farming methods are helping them produce more crops while preserving the forest.

Sophie Mbugua

Supporters react before the Kenyan opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition leader has himself sworn in as the 'people's president' on January 30th, 2018 in Nairobi. Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga had himself sworn in as an alternative president in front of thousands of supporters, three months after an election he claims was stolen from him.

Letter From Nairobi, Kenya: Watching Kenya’s Deadly Elections Unfold

The night before the election results were announced, opposition leader Raila Odinga was in the lead. But when Kenyans woke up the next morning, the election had unexpectedly flipped in favor of incumbent president Mwai Kibaki.

Elettra Pauletto