11th Carmignac Photojournalism Award

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Moses Sawasawa

Moses Sawasawa is a freelance photographer based in Goma, covering humanitarian issues, culture, health, and daily life. He is the cofounder of Collectif Goma Oeil, which promotes positive images of Congo.

Goma, DRC, February 2021. A student has her temperature checked at the entrance to Mwanga Institute in the eastern Congolese city of Goma as schools reopened in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday after a two-month hiatus due to a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. © Moses Sawasawa for Fondation Carmignac

Health

Students Return to School as Pandemic Second Wave Eases

Schools and universities reopened this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a two-month hiatus due to the second...

byMoses Sawasawa

February 26, 2021

Goma, DRC, July 13, 2020. Protesters are arrested by a police officer in the eastern Congolese city of Goma on July 13 while denouncing the nomination of an election commission chief accused of rigging past elections in favour of former President Joseph Kabila. Congolese authorities have come under fire for cracking down on peaceful critics, journalists, and political party members while using pandemic state of emergency measures as a pretext to curb political protests. © Moses Sawasawa for Fondation Carmignac

Access to clean water

Congo Lifts Coronavirus State of Emergency

Congo this week lifted health emergency measures put in place on March 24 to contain the spread of coronavirus. The...

byMoses Sawasawa

July 24, 2020

Access to clean water

Coronavirus and Water Woes

The rusted blue gate is forced open by crowds of women and children with scuffed yellow jerry cans surging past...

byMoses Sawasawaand1 others

June 20, 2020

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, April 2, 2020. Vendors and shoppers at Kituku market on the shores of Lake Kivu. Congo has one of the highest rates of informal workers in the world with about 80 per cent of urban workers involved in the informal economy, according to the World Bank. The Trade Union Confederation of Congo estimates that nationally the informal economy represents an astronomical 97.5 per cent of all workers. © Moses Sawasawa for Fondation Carmignac

Economy

Congo’s Informal Economy

With today being International Workers’ Day, I wanted to show how millions of Congolese rely on some form of daily...

byMoses Sawasawa

May 1, 2020

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