Isabelle Wesselingh

AFP correspondent in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ex-Marseille, Moyen-Orient Afrique du Nord, Roumanie, Pays-Bas. Livre Bosnie, la mémoire à vif. RT not endorsement

[Agence France-Presse @afpfr]

🦀 Le crabe bleu, venu d'Amérique, menace les écosystèmes de Méditerranée française. Pour tenter de réguler cette espèce invasive, les scientifiques encouragent à consommer ce "bon nageur savoureux", la traduction de son nom latin ⤵️

[Isabelle Wesselingh @Wesselingh_AFP]

"Don't build a cage for a #bird, plant a #tree near your house". After wartime deforestation, Afghans revive love for trees and plant pistachios, poplars, cedars...Our #AFP report with @SafiAysha #Afghanistan
#WorldEnvironmentDay2026June5
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[Isabelle Wesselingh @Wesselingh_AFP]

"Pour un #oiseau, ne construisez pas une cage, plantez un arbre près de votre maison". Après la déforestation causée par les guerres, Afghanes et Afghans racontent leur amour des #arbres et replantent. Notre reportage #AFP #Afghanistan @akdn micro-#forêt
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[ICRC Afghanistan @ICRC_af]

The @ICRC organized a 3-day training for legal medicine and forensic professionals from #Kabul and six provinces.

The training strengthens the capacity of forensic staff to respond to mass fatalities with humanity, professionalism, and respect for the dead and their families.

[Isabelle Wesselingh @Wesselingh_AFP]

La diversification en #agriculture, un reportage #AFP par @MarisolRifai https://t.co/Fz0VqDSreT

[Agence France-Presse @afpfr]

🇦🇫🇵🇰 Le conflit qui oppose le Pakistan et l'Afghanistan a provoqué la mort d'au moins 372 civils afghans de janvier à fin mars, selon un rapport de l'ONU publié ce mardi ⤵️

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🌸 Afghan families are flocking to the valleys of Shirin Tagab district, near the border with Turkmenistan, to be among thousands of flowers that appeared after abundant rain.
📝/📸 Atif Aryan
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[Agence France-Presse @afpfr]

🇦🇫 Afghanistan: quand les magasins n'avaient plus ni farine, ni sucre, Osama Nuristani a survécu grâce au lait de ses vaches comme d'autres villageois coupés du monde par la guerre avec le Pakistan. La semaine dernière, ils ont enfin reçu une aide humanitaire ⤵️

[Isabelle Wesselingh @Wesselingh_AFP]

School damaged by shelling, families forced to leave their home living in tents , #AFP traveled to remote villages of Eastern Afghanistan to see the effects of Pakistan war on #children and #education. 22 schools damaged in Kunar province according to @OCHAAfg 🇦🇫🇵🇰

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🏫 War with Pakistan shatters the education of thousands of Afghan pupils

The UN estimates about 12,000 schoolchildren in Afghanistan have been displaced or had their education severely disrupted due to the ongoing conflict with Pakistan.

[Isabelle Wesselingh @Wesselingh_AFP]

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[Isabelle Wesselingh @Wesselingh_AFP]

There are no #children in the Afghan border village of Barikot, where the #school has been smashed by shells and the playground is deserted after weeks of war with Pakistan. Our report #AFP on the empty village and the plight of displaced families🇦🇫🇵🇰
https://t.co/g6zeajo452

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

⚖️ International law is more important than ever at a time when even core countries in the global system are calling it into question, the United Nations secretary general said on Friday.
➡️ https://t.co/CnHQIiQ7dl

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

💰 Afghans comb riverbed in search of gold dust

Hundreds of men dig into the rocky bed of the Kunar River in eastern Afghanistan, searching for a few grams of gold dust as an alternative source of income.

[Isabelle Wesselingh @Wesselingh_AFP]

Les espoirs de justice de Samira après la frappe pakistanaise qui a tué son fils. Un reportage #AFP en #Afghanistan #justice #guerre @afpfr 🇦🇫 🇵🇰 https://t.co/3iSH7EDJE9

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🇵🇰 Afghan mother seeks justice after Pakistani bombing kills hundreds

Samira Muhammadi hopes an international investigation can "extinguish" her pain after a Pakistani bombing killed her son and hundreds of other Afghans in the capital Kabul on March 16.

[Isabelle Wesselingh @Wesselingh_AFP]

Samira Muhammadi hopes an international investigation can "extinguish" her pain after a Pakistani bombing killed her son and hundreds of other Afghans in the capital Kabul. Our @AFP report in #Afghanistan #war #justice
| AFP https://t.co/ScKr0zo7aC via @YouTube

[Isabelle Wesselingh @Wesselingh_AFP]

Our #AFP team in #Afghanistan met the mother of a 20-year old killed in a Pakistani strike on a drug rehab clinic in #Kabul. Read her quest for answers and justice. Thanks to @KenRoth for his analysis and to @nina_larson for Geneva reporting #justice @UNAMAnews

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

Samira Muhammadi hopes an international investigation can "extinguish" her pain after a Pakistani bombing killed her son and hundreds of other Afghans in the capital Kabul last month.

https://t.co/EgOD9SEbms

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Humans are set to lay eyes on the dark side of the Moon for the first time, if all goes as planned on NASA's Artemis mission that has sent four astronauts on a lunar flyby. Here are some shots of our nearest celestial neighbor, taken in France, China, the Palestinian Territories and Germany.

[Agence France-Presse @afpfr]

Les enfants français passent dix fois moins de temps en extérieur qu'il y a 30 ans : face à ce constat, des expérimentations à l'école se multiplient pour donner des heures de classe au milieu de la nature.

Reportage ➡️ https://t.co/udX52cYNRq

[Isabelle Wesselingh @Wesselingh_AFP]

Abdul Hai Hamidi ouvre chaque cercueil espérant reconnaître un de ses proches décédés lors d'une frappe pakistanaise contre un hôpital pour toxicomanes de #Kaboul, mais aucun des plus de 50 corps enterrés jeudi ne lui apporte de réponse.
Notre reportage #AFP en #Afghanistan

[Agence France-Presse @afpfr]

Kaboul enterre des victimes d'une frappe pakistanaise, des proches toujours sans réponse.

✍️ Le reportage: https://t.co/2iql0OTHaN