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Celeste Hicks

Celeste Hicks is an independent journalist who specialises in Africa and the Sahel. She has lived in Chad, Mali and Somalia

December 2021

  • Celeste Hicks with academic Alan Wilson in London

    Experience
    Experience: I was orphaned at Christmas – and saved by kind strangers

    We found out Dad owed all this money. Now his creditors wanted our house

December 2016

  • Dar Si Hmad’s system of fog nets

    Innovations in development
    'Cloud fishing' reels in precious water for villagers in rural Morocco

    A fog harvesting project in an arid region of Morocco solves water stress and means women no longer have to fetch water, enabling them to train or learn

November 2016

  • Pavillon africain at COP22 in Marrakesh, Morocco on 17 November 2016

    ‘Africa is tired of being in the dark’: bank chief on plans to boost energy

    At COP22, the African Development Bank’s president, Akinwumi Adesina, tells of strategies to improve energy supplies and fight the impact of climate change
  • An aerial view of the solar mirrors at the Noor 1 Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant, some 20km (12.5 miles) outside the central Moroccan town of Ouarzazate on February 4, 2016. Noor 1 is one of the largest solar plants in the world, which is the first stage of a larger project designed to boost renewable energy production in Morocco. / AFP / FADEL SENNAFADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images

    Morocco lights the way for Africa on renewable energy

    COP22 host leads by example in the fight against climate change with 52% green energy target by 2020 and Africa’s first city cycle hire scheme
  • On the eve of UNFCCC COP22 Greenpeace unfurled #SunUnitesUs banners in the iconic World Heritage site of Ait Ben Haddou, in southern Morocco, sending a strong message to leaders about the potential of solar and renewable energy in the fight against climat<br>On the eve of UNFCCC COP22, to be held in Marrakech, Greenpeace unfurled #SunUnitesUs banners in the iconic World Heritage site of Ait Ben Haddou, in southern Morocco, sending a strong message to leaders about the potential of solar and renewable energy in the fight against climate change. At Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco, on 1 November 2016. N31°02.811' W7°07.637'

    COP22 host Morocco launches action plan to fight devastating climate change

    As UN climate talks start in Marrakech, Morocco calls on world leaders to put the focus on concrete plans for helping Africa’s small-scale farmers

June 2016

  • Khaltoum Alta, a member of the Ajddigue women’s argan co-operative in the village of Tidzi, sorts argan nuts

    Women's rights and gender equality
    'Free, local and special': argan oil co-ops booming in Morocco

    Morocco’s ‘gold’ is providing jobs for hundreds of women in a thriving network of co-operatives, and helping to reduce desertification amid climate change

May 2016

  • Mauritanian anti-slavery activist Biram Ould Abeid (centre) is welcomed by supporters as he walks out of jail after the supreme court downgraded his crimes.

    Modern-day slavery in focus
    Campaigners celebrate slavery prosecutions in Mauritania

    Mauritania hints at progress on civil rights with convictions of two slave-owners and release of two anti-slavery activists

March 2016

  • Counsellor and patient

    Aid worker wellbeing
    'I was raped and my counsellor asked me what I had been wearing'

    Danielle Dryke was raped while she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali. She didn’t expect her counsellor to make her feel that the attack was her fault

February 2016

  • Former Chadian president Hissène Habré (centre) is escorted into the courtroom by prison guards for the first proceedings of his trial in Dakar on 20 July, 2015

    Defence lawyers begin summing up in Hissène Habré war crimes trial

    The trial of Chad’s former president for war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture has reached its last stage before the judges consider their verdict

January 2016

  • Moroccan women depicted in street art on a wall in Casablanca

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Dos de Femme, Dos de Mulet by Hicham Houdaïfa review – beer, sex, abuse: the life of women on Morocco's margins

    Houdaïfa peels back the ostensibly enlightened veneer of Moroccan society to expose a world of underage marriage, sexual exploitation and daily struggle

December 2015

  • A photograph from 1987 of Chad’s then-president, Hissène Habré, in N’Djamena

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Lawyers press for Chad's Hissène​​ Habré to face sexual slavery and rape charges

  • Screen grab from a video of a protest march of handicapped childrens' families. They walked to Jerada, Morocco, June 2015

    Morocco: activists claim draft rights law fails to treat disabled people as equals

October 2015

  • Farmers pick strawberries, to be exported, in a field in the town of Moulay Bousselham in Kenitra province March 15, 2014. The local strawberry growers use the multi-layers planting method to gain two times more strawberries than usual.

    Morocco's progress on food security acknowledged by UN but work remains

    UN special rapporteur hails increased food production under green plan while calling for better provision for small-scale farmers in remote areas

September 2015

  • CORRECTS NAME OF PHOTOGRAPHER Security personnel surround former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre inside the court in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, July 20, 2015. The trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre, accused of overseeing the deaths of thousands, had a chaotic beginning Monday as security forces ushered the ex-leader into and then out of the Senegal courtroom amid protests by his supporters.(AP Photo/Ibrahima Ndiaye)

    Chad's Hissène Habré carried into court as war crimes trial resumes in Dakar

    Former dictator is forcibly brought to court as landmark trial for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture restarts in Senegal

August 2015

  • Souleymane Guengueng says a few weeks delay of Hissène Habré’s trial is nothing compared to the 25-year wait for justice endured by the former dictator’s victims.

    Chronicler of crimes by Hissène Habré confident that justice finally at hand

    Souleymane Guengueng says adjournment of the trial in Senegal is but a minor delay in the long journey to bring former Chad dictator to book

July 2015

  • Former Chadian leader Hissene Habre (C) reacts as he is escorted in to stand trial by Senegalese police at the Palais de Justice in Dakar, Senegal, 20 July 2015.

    Chad's Hissène Habré removed from Senegal court as scuffle breaks out

  • Former Chad president Hissène Habré

    Former Chad dictator's war crimes trial opens in Senegal

April 2015

  • A man on a motorbike rides past La Place de la Nation (Nation Square) in N'Djamena.

    Is Chad managing to beat the 'oil curse'?

    Celeste Hicks
    Much is being done to challenge the negative impact of oil production in Africa. In her new book, Celeste Hicks looks at the complexities of the scramble for oil, and what has been achieved

July 2014

  • MDG uranium in Niger

    Niger activists arrested over Areva protest before François Hollande visit

    Uranium deal between French nuclear firm and Niger government triggers demonstrations, followed by arrests

June 2014

  • MDG : Central African Republic Emergency Situation map : CAR refugees and IDP

    US increases aid to Central African Republic amid new surge of violence

    Chad closes borders to CAR escapees as lack of ID papers adds to confusion over status of many displaced people

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