After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

They also maintained nobody has died because of the USAID cuts. Here’s our reporting from Kenya, where we found that isn’t true, with 📸 by @storitellah.com www.propublica.org/article/keny...

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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.

Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.

By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma

The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.

After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.

By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com

There is something deeply grounding about reading the work in print, which makes me realize how important the stories we tell matter.

Today, I received my first ever printed editions of the Times featuring my photos from Somalia displayed on the pages, and it feels incredible to see it in print.

Shout to @stephanienolen.bsky.social for organising this.

I have been contributing photography to The New York Times since 2019, but I had never seen or held a physical copy.

Everyone should consider following this incredible photographer.

@petesouza.bsky.social @kennerly.bsky.social

Today, on the front page of the @nytimes.com website.

How Kenyan Villagers Saved Their Sacred Caves From a Mining Company

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/w...

Reframing the lens: Power and representation in humanitarian photography Photography is a powerful tool for organizations responding to the world’s most urgent crises. Images can raise awareness, spark empathy, and mobilize support across borders.

The first in our series exploring storytelling in the humanitarian and development sectors.

In this piece, we reflect on the power and responsibility of photography in crisis settings and why ethical storytelling means centering the voices of those most affected.

Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.

"The whole system of finding, diagnosing and treating tuberculosis ... has collapsed in dozens of countries across Africa and Asia since President Trump ordered the aid freeze" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h... - @stephanienolen.bsky.social

A Kafkaesque tale unfolding in this @stephanienolen.bsky.social story of tuberculosis programs in the wake of aid cuts (all the more the case given Kafka died of TB).

Your images play such an important part in telling this story, Brian. Thank you.

Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.

Critical reporting from Stephanie Nolen on what the interruption of TB funding actually means for those living with the disease--and those caring for them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally (Gift Article) The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.

In Kenya parents who took their sick children to get tested for TB the day before Trump was inaugurated are still waiting to hear if their children are infected. People with drug-resistant TB are not being treated. A global health risk, delivered by the aid freeze www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

Yesterday on the frontpage and double spread of the @nytimes, with Stephanie Nolen, writing about the impact of USAID funding cuts on TB treatment and the lives affected.

On the homepage of the @nytimes.com today. Read more >> www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.

Read more >> www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

Photos by © Brian Otieno @storitellah.com for @nytimes.com
Words by Stephanie Nolen

Rainy Days. Photo by ©️ Brian Otieno @Storitellah /@kiberastories #KiberaStories #Storitellah

Yesterday on the frontpage of @nytimes ARTS.

An evolving ecosystem of literary spaces is promoting writers and changing the stories told about the region.

Read more >>> www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/b...

Yesterday on the frontpage of @nytimes.

Snakebites kill some 120,000 people per year, many in rural Africa, where treatment is scarce.

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Venomous snakes bite millions of people worldwide each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor people in rural areas of Africa without easy access to treatment.

Read more >> www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/h...

Photos by © Brian Otieno @storitellah
Words by Apoorva Mandavilli

2024. And other stories. Photos by © Brian Otieno @storitellah #storitellah #StoritellahDiaries #tellahtales

Security lights cast a glow over the rooftops of Kibera on a lively night. The lights enhance visibility and safety within the community. Photo by © Brian Otieno @storitellah.bsky.social #KiberaStories

The moment captured highlights the solidarity of the Kenyan youths who stood their ground against proposed tax increases. Amid water cannons, teargas, and chaos, the youths' unwavering stance ultimately led to the withdrawal of the finance bill 2024.

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The Year in Pictures 2024: Far From Ordinary (Gift Article) Photographers captured historic moments of war, grief and wonder that defined the year.

One of my photos, taken on June 25 during the protests in Nairobi, Kenya, has been featured in The New York Times Year in Pictures!

Buying books and reading books are 2 separate hobbies

Rage Grows Over a Spate of Brutal Murders of Women in Kenya (Gift Article) Almost 100 women have been killed in the span of three months, the police say. Rights groups want President William Ruto to declare femicide a national crisis.

A series of brutal murders in Kenya in recent months, documented by the police and human rights groups, has stunned the nation and prompted protests across the country. Calls are intensifying for the authorities to do more to stop the killings of women and girls.

Photos by ©️ Brian Otieno for NYT

Nairobi. Photos by © Brian Otieno @storitellah #storitellah #StoritellahDiaries