Khadija M. Farah

Photojournalist. Female agitator. Available for assignments.

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

Lamu residents protest the zoning of beach areas on Manda Beach by a private investor.

[Khadija M. Farah @kmfarah]

With each new towering structure that comes up, each of them cutting trees, digging boreholes and some even emptying their sewage into the river because the system can’t handle the development, we have lost one of the things that make this city unique- its waterways.

[Khadija M. Farah @kmfarah]

We gotta talk about the sewage that flows down Nairobi River every damn day. Yaani we can’t sit in our homes without our noses being assaulted each evening. There are no frogs or birds that nest along the river anymore. It’s practically dead.

[Khadija M. Farah @kmfarah]

Riverbank is embedded with trash. I haven’t heard a frog in years. No crickets. Only bird you’ll see is the hadada. Monkeys, who we would see maybe once every few months, come in droves everyday because there are fewer trees. And forgat sitting outside because THE SEWAGE?!? 🤢🤮

[Khadija M. Farah @kmfarah]

12 years ago, the river was healthy enough that even eagles came to eat from it. Rainy season meant an orchestra of frogs serenaded you to sleep. You could sit outside day and night and hear nothing but birdsong and the sound of the river flowing by. Now?

[رانية @Raniaibrahim_]

baba’s video is resurfacing and I just want to say that Omar Sharon and the rest of the UAE- backed RSF criminals were not held accountable for the death of my father & the countless other civilians that were detained.

We found baba’s body in a mass grave along with

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

Earlier today, the Israeli army stormed Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank, dragging away every Palestinian man they could capture. We have said it from day one: Israel’s war is not only the genocide in Gaza, but also the relentless ethnic cleansing of our people in the West Bank. The same machinery of erasure is at work everywhere.

[Valerie Zink @valeriezink]

I can’t in good conscience continue to work for Reuters given their betrayal of journalists in Gaza and culpability in the assassination of 245 our colleagues.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

The problem is that our industry is governed by a subservient sense of propriety. Protecting your job, keeping quiet in your newsroom or taking positions in complicit institutions has become more important than upholding the values, ethics and basic practices of the profession. Awards, panels, and prestige matter more than telling the truth, than holding power accountable.

[Yousra Elbagir @YousraElbagir]

Emirati influencers are upping the ante on Sudan-focussed propaganda as condemnation of the UAE's documented support of the RSF picks up online.

The women's rights angle is dark - the RSF has used sexual violence as a weapon of war against girls as young as 8 years old.

[Khadija M. Farah @kmfarah]

If Mookh is given the ticket portal for AFCON, we’ll be stuck looking for scalpers on Ngong Rd.

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

Microsoft should be sued for aiding and abetting genocide.

[Khadija M. Farah @kmfarah]

@edwinoblak We really shouldn’t be surprised

[Khadija M. Farah @kmfarah]

Nairobi people, they’ve closed various access roads going to town.

[Khadija M. Farah @kmfarah]

Nairobi people love putting up barriers on public access roads in the name of security and exclusion and I am tayad of it.

[Khadija M. Farah @kmfarah]

I just realized I’ve worked with more Kenyan women this just year than in all my career. And it’s only May! Love it for me. Alhamdulillah.

[Khadija M. Farah @kmfarah]

More new work. ✍️ @marymwendwa

[The END Fund @TheENDFund]

A dedicated team of healthcare experts embarks on a mission of profound importance in Uasin Gichu, Kenya. They are mapping the spread of two of Kenya’s most persistent neglected tropical diseases—intestinal worms and schistosomiasis.
https://t.co/fEPUKdddKu

[Khadija M. Farah @kmfarah]

I should do better at posting things I’ve worked on so here’s one for the French readers.

[Le magazine du Monde @lemonde_M]

Au Kenya, une course de fond contre les violences conjugales https://t.co/DnBQQfBHUe

[Khadija M. Farah @kmfarah]

New work. ✍️ @caroline__kimeu

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Exclusive: A row over access to grasslands in Kenya adds to questions about the credibility of carbon-capture projects and whether they actually benefit the people who live off the land https://t.co/DurgkUMpYB

[Khadija M. Farah @kmfarah]

Be intentionally delusional with your duas these last few nights of Ramadan. Nothing is too big or small for Al Kareem (The Most Generous), Al Barr (The Source of All Goodness), Al Mujeeb (The Responsive One). Boundless. Don’t put limits on our Creator’s Mercy.