Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Mutare, Zimbabwe

Clemence Mashavira, 10, brings water from a community well in the Gimboki 3 neighborhood of Mutare, Zimbabwe. The area has no running water, so the residents of the communities have dug wells. They boil the water before use to prevent disease.

Photo by Evidence Chenjerai

Kampala, Uganda

Children ride a Ferris wheel during the Toto Festival, a popular annual Christmas event, at Mandela National Stadium in Kampala, Uganda. Kids competed in essay writing and songwriting contests and had the chance to win school fees, cash and other prizes. The event is named for a children’s magazine, Toto.

Photo by Apophia Agiresaasi

Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

Nathalie Bagega shaves Jean Musongela’s head at Loboko Ya Mwasi, a hair salon in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. The salon’s name, Loboko Ya Mwasi, translates from the Lingala language as A Woman’s Hand. Bagega charges 5,000 Congolese francs (about $3) for a haircut and does five to 10 haircuts per day.

Photo by Nadia Kanyere Karasisi

Kampala, Uganda

Elijay Graffiti, a Kenyan graffiti artist whose real name is Elijah Mutua, spray-paints a mural during the Afri-Cans Street Art Festival 2018, in the Kitintale neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda. The theme of this year’s festival was “Celebrating Women.”

Photo by Patricia Lindrio

Harare, Zimbabwe

At the Kamfinsa Shopping Center in Harare, Zimbabwe, David Mutasa sets up an artwork that he made from a tire. Mutasa, who is a missionary, was inspired by a dream to create tire art, and he donates the money he makes to charity, he says.

Photo by Kudzai Mazvarirwofa

Kampala, Uganda

Sharunga Dorah, 11, helps her parents crush stones at a quarry in Acholi Quarter, a village in Kampala, Uganda. Sharunga makes 200 Ugandan shillings (5 cents) per 10-liter (10.6-quart) jerry can of stones. The money helps with her school fees and with household necessities.

Photo by Patricia Lindrio

Lusaka, Zambia

Kelvin Kaboba (center) cheers for the Young Buffaloes Football Club, during the Barclays Cup tournament final at Heroes Stadium in Lusaka, Zambia. The fans show their support for the team by making a gesture resembling buffalo horns. The Young Buffaloes lost the match to the Nkana Football Club, 3-0.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

Enya people practice traditional fishing techniques, at Wagenia Falls in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. They use these wooden tripods to hold baskets and nets to trap Congo River fish, which are sold for about 8,000 Congolese francs ($5) per kilogram (2.2 pounds) at Kisangani’s central market.

Photo by Francine Ishay Mulumba

Nyazura, Zambia

Kerina Muguta, seen here with a coworker’s children, Tinotenda Mangwiro, 3, and Ruvarashe Mangwiro, 5 (left), sorts grass along the Harare-Mutare road in Nyazura, a city about 195 kilometers (121 miles) southeast of Harare, Zimbabwe. The grass is sold for 20 cents per bundle and is used to build thatched roofs.

Photo by Linda Mujuru

Kibaya, Rwanda

Faustin Mfitumukiza, 23, carries a banana tree trunk to feed his cows in Kibaya, a village in Rwanda’s Rubavu district. Since the Rwandan government forbade farmers from grazing cows outside their pens because of the danger of spreading diseases, farmers have preferred to feed their cattle with cheap banana trees.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

Mutare, Zimbabwe

Trevor Kashiri crushes stones at a quarry in Mutare, Zimbabwe. Kashiri and his team of small-scale stone crushers roll boulders down nearby mountains, then break up the rocks. They sell a truckload of 7 metric tons (15,400 pounds) for $120 to $150. A wheelbarrow full of stones goes for $2.

Photo by Evidence Chenjerai

Kirumba, DRC

Graphic artist Christian Bahwere Songya (right) gives painting lessons to Divine Kavugho, a teacher, in the city of Kirumba in Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province. Songya has been drawing since childhood, and now he teaches art to keep people from turning to crime or joining armed groups.

Photo by Merveille Kavira Luneghe

Makiso, DRC

Benito Awazi welds windows at his workshop in Makiso, a district in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. Awazi says that when electricity is available, he is able to make four doors and four windows per day. He sells each door for 486,000 Congolese francs ($300), and windows are 162,000 to 242,000 francs ($100 to $150). To avoid having his work disrupted by power outages, Awazi buys prepaid electricity from SNEL, a national utility, for 32,400 francs ($20) per day.

Photo by Francine Ishay Mulumba

Kampala, Uganda

A member of United Acrobats performs during the MTN at 20 Futuristic Expo, at the Kololo Independence Grounds in Kololo, a neighborhood in Kampala, Uganda. The event, organized by the telecom company MTN Uganda, commemorated the firm’s 20th anniversary, with the theme “Celebrating the Past, Inspiring the Future.”

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe

Patience Muchena, 10, hangs a card with her feelings and aspirations on a clothesline in Chitungwiza, a city about 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Harare, Zimbabwe. The organization Magamba Network, which focuses on youth activism and culture, created the concept to promote peace after the violence that followed July elections.

Photo by Linda Mujuru

Mutare, Zimbabwe

Tatenda Chakanetsa, 7, eats mulberries from a tree near his home in Mutare, Zimbabwe. Tatenda says he loves to climb the tree and eat its fruit.

Photo by Linda Mujuru

Siavonga, Zambia

A group of friends swim in Lake Kariba in Siavonga, Zambia. Lake Kariba is one of the world’s biggest man-made lakes.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Kirumba, DRC

Hariette Kahambu makes a distilled alcoholic drink, known as rutuku or mangwende, with help from her children in Kirumba, a city in Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province. The drink is made from a mixture of corn and cassava flour. The family rents a hand-built machine for $1 per day to grind the corn.

Photo by Merveille Kavira Luneghe

Nansana Kabumbi, Wakiso District, Uganda

Juma Ibanda offers rides on the back of his camel, Alibaba, to customers Niwagaba Spencer (left) and Agaba Davis, in Nansana, a town in Uganda’s Wakiso district. Ibanda and a colleague own four trained camels that they take around town to give short rides to customers, making about 70,000 Ugandan shillings ($18) per camel per day.

Photo by Edna Namara

Goma, North Kivu, DRC

Health workers at the border of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo ask residents to wash their hands and have their temperatures taken, in hopes of preventing the spread of Ebola. A month ago, an outbreak was declared in Beni, a DRC town about 520 kilometers (323 miles) from Goma. Since then, well over 100 cases have been reported. A few people have survived, thanks to a new vaccine.

Photo by Noella Nyirabihogo

Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

Motorists struggle out of a mud hole that formed on Kisangani Road in Democratic Republic of Congo. The unpaved road, part of the Trans-African Highway, was built by Belgian colonists in the 1960s.

Photo by Nadia Kanyere Karasisi

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Learnmore Sibanda, 18, sits on the sidewalks of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, sketching and selling portraits for $1 each. “Drawing and sharpening my skills is better than smoking drugs like some of my peers,” he says. “My dream is to go back to school and eventually become an artist.”

Photo by Fortune Moyo

Nsambya, Uganda

In Nsambya, a suburb of Kampala, Uganda, Hellen Achom bakes millet flour, an ingredient used to make a local beer called “malwa.” It takes three weeks to make the brew. Malwa drinkers sit in a circle and use very long straws to sip the beverage from a pot.

Photo by Edna Namara

Harare, Zimbabwe

Sandra Mazviwanza collects water from a pipe that burst in Glenview 2, a neighborhood in Harare, Zimbabwe. Although three people from her neighborhood have died in Zimbabwe’s current outbreak of cholera, a water-borne disease, Mazviwanza says this is the only way she has had to gather water since the rupture of this pipe, which is connected to her house.

Photo by Linda Mujuru

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