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Patrick Meinhardt

@Patrassa

Agence France-Presse photographer in Senegal covering West Africa

 Dakar, Senegal
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Joined January 2012
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The Continent@thecontinent_6 Jun 2025
A worshipper enters a mosque in the oasis town of Oulata in Mauritania. Oulata is an ancient trade and religious centre that still guards treasured artefacts dating back to the Middle Ages. Patrick Meinhardt/AFP
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AFP Communications@AFPcom29 Jul 2024
📸 #AFP topshots of the week (20-26 July 2024) include pictures by @LoicVenance, @fong_fifi, @Patrassa and @corumphoto. 👉 Available here: u.afp.com/pics2607 #photography #photojournalism #AFPPhoto @AFPphoto
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@theintercept6 Apr 2024
@NehaWadekar reports: theintercept.com/2024/04/03/…
Rio Tinto’s Madagascar Mine Promised Prosperity. It Tainted a Community.

Rio Tinto’s Madagascar Mine Promised Prosperity. It Tainted a Community.

Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian mining company, is facing legal claims that it contaminated lakes with harmful levels of uranium and lead.

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nehawadekar@NehaWadekar3 Apr 2024
For 14 months, I've investigated allegations that mining giant @RioTinto is contaminating water in SE Madagascar with harmful levels of lead and uranium. Yesterday, @LeighDay_Law filed a letter of claim to Rio Tinto, step 1 in a UK lawsuit. @Patrassa theintercept.com/2024/04/03/…
Rio Tinto’s Madagascar Mine Promised Prosperity. It Tainted a Community.

Rio Tinto’s Madagascar Mine Promised Prosperity. It Tainted a Community.

Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian mining company, is facing legal claims that it contaminated lakes with harmful levels of uranium and lead.

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@nytimes31 Oct 2023
As King Charles III makes his first trip to Africa as king, some Kenyans want answers for colonial abuses. Others want him to address recent allegations. nyti.ms/3QFHWM0
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Agnes Tirop, a young superstar of Kenyan running, had just broken the 10km world record when she was stabbed and bludgeoned to death at home. Why? thetimes.co.uk/article/agnes…
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Daphne Rousseau@daphnerousseau30 Apr 2023
With its maze of huts housing 15,000 souls on a green hillside in the Indian Ocean island of #Mayotte, Kaweni has grown into France's largest shantytown. #AFP 📸 @Patrassa ✍️ @daphnerousseau france24.com/en/live-news/20…
Kaweni: France's biggest shantytown in the Indian Ocean

Kaweni: France's biggest shantytown in the Indian Ocean

With its maze of huts housing 15,000 souls on a green hillside in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, Kaweni has grown into France's largest shantytown.

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Daphne Rousseau@daphnerousseau29 Apr 2023
"La violence est leur vengeance pour cette vie. Ils se disent qu'avec un chambo (coupe-coupe) en main, ils ont un statut dans le quartier" #mayotte #AFP ✍️ @daphnerousseau 📸 @patrickmeinhard information.tv5monde.com/inf…

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@guardian25 Apr 2023
‘You can see camel carcasses all over’: rural Kenyans face tough new battle with predators theguardian.com/global-devel…
‘You can see camel carcasses all over’: rural Kenyans face tough new battle with predators

‘You can see camel carcasses all over’: rural Kenyans face tough new battle with predators

‘National disaster’ unfolding, as sixth failed rainy season, deforestation and poaching push wildlife into conflict with pastoral communities

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‘From bad to worse’: drought puts Kenya’s hospitals under pressure theguardian.com/global-devel…

‘From bad to worse’: drought puts Kenya’s hospitals under pressure

New mothers at rural hospital running out of water and power tell of their struggles as health workers leave for safer areas

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@guardian17 Apr 2023
A future at risk: drought forces Kenya’s camel herders to leave their homes – a photo essay dlvr.it/SmbgCQ
A future at risk: drought forces Kenya’s camel herders to leave their homes – a photo essay

A future at risk: drought forces Kenya’s camel herders to leave their homes – a photo essay

Pastoralists in the north of the country are watching their animals die as they journey further south in a desperate search for water and better grazing

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📷 Powerful photo essay captures the life of desperate camel herders in northern Kenya, forced to leave their homes in the face of drought. Pictures by @Patrassa Words by @caroline__kimeu @GdnDevelopment #IBTRecommends theguardian.com/global-devel… – at Poplar, London
A future at risk: drought forces Kenya’s camel herders to leave their homes – a photo essay

A future at risk: drought forces Kenya’s camel herders to leave their homes – a photo essay

Pastoralists in the north of the country are watching their animals die as they journey further south in a desperate search for water and better grazing

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@AFPphoto8 Mar 2023
#AFP Patrick Meinhardt captures scenes at a religious statues workshop in Onitsha, Nigeria. 📷 @Patrassa
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Aurelia BAILLY@AureliaBAILLY7 Mar 2023
#AFP Patrick Meinhardt captures scenes at a religious statues workshop in Onitsha, Nigeria. 📷 @Patrassa
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Louise Dewast@LouiseDewast26 Feb 2023
Replying to @LouiseDewast @a_mlopes @CamilleMalplat @leci_ac @patrmarkey @AFP
2/ and here another story, both w/ photos from @Michele_Spatari @Patrassa @wesselsjohn1 @EkpeiPius rfi.fr/en/international-news…
In Nigeria, voters set on defending a free election

In Nigeria, voters set on defending a free election

Nigerians of all ages were determined to ensure a credible election outcome, monitoring polling centres as initial results from a presidential election trickled in on Sunday.

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Caroline Kimeu@caroline__kimeu26 Jan 2023
Kenya’s medical schools face a shortage of cadavers: theguardian.com/global-devel… - with @Patrassa @PhilipOgola
‘Culture is hard to break’: Kenya’s medical schools face a shortage of cadavers

‘Culture is hard to break’: Kenya’s medical schools face a shortage of cadavers

Medical training is in demand, but hesitancy on body donation means students have little to work with, while an illicit trade in transplant organs flourishes

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Have the Oxford professors who made the AstraZeneca Covid jab created a vaccine to end malaria? @Mcinparis reports on a promising new weapon against the disease thetimes.co.uk/article/the-e…
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Mee-Lai Stone@mlestone9 Oct 2022
Comic con, world Judo and a travelling fair: the weekend’s best photos theguardian.com/news/gallery…
Comic con, world Judo and a travelling fair: the weekend’s best photos

Comic con, world Judo and a travelling fair: the weekend’s best photos

The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world

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@AFP8 Oct 2022
💪🏿 Time to flex at the East Africa Natural Body Building Contest in Eldoret, Kenya 📷 @Patrassa
A bodybuilder flexes his right arm as he poses on stage

ALT A bodybuilder flexes his right arm as he poses on stage

A bodybuilder raises his arms as he poses on stage

ALT A bodybuilder raises his arms as he poses on stage

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