Will Swanson

Emmy award winning journalist, documentary photographer, Pulitzer grantee & GroundTruth fellow.

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🎥 The return of Daesh

Our documentary inside #Somalia’s gruelling war against ISIS in the Puntland Mountains.

Premiering on @ARTEfr & @FRANCE24 February 2026

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Useful @ECHO_CESAfrica map of Ebola outbreak, via @LiamTheKelly

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DRC: 500 suspected cases and 130 suspected deaths in latest Ebola outbreak, says @WHO

Bundibugyo virus, a species of Ebola virus, has no available vaccines or therapeutics.

https://t.co/O2bve0OmdA

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Parts of Somalia 🇸🇴 face a credible risk of #Famine between June and September, warns @FEWSNET alert.

Some families are already facing catastrophic food insecurity in Bay, Bakool and Gedo:

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Somalia is a beautiful place.

Vignettes from the port city of Bosaso in Puntland.

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@prestonstew_ Somali technical, mountain edition

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Tactical donkey in Almiskaad, Puntland

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Tactical donkey in Almiskaad, Puntland

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IEDs, drones and airstrikes in the Cal Miskaad.

Photos from five days spent embedded with Puntland forces fighting ISIS in Somalia. Reporting for @ARTEfr and @France24_en, the doc is now available to watch on Youtube.

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A soldier’s downtime - a haircut and a cigarette - images of the Puntland forces at the frontlines of Somalia’s war against ISIS

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@PolGeoNow @France24_en @bastien_rnl Ps I’ll be sharing more photos from our shoot in Al Miskat here on X and instagram, and you can see some BTS I’ve already shared in older posts. Lots of easter eggs for keen PL watchers but the platform is not what it used to be, everything gets buried these days.

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Somalia's frontline soldiers in the war against ISIS/Daesh in Puntland

watch our documentary for @France24_en #REPORTERS now online: https://t.co/o3IbWpumP8

#Somalia #ISIS #Puntland

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@PolGeoNow @France24_en @bastien_rnl Yes - we shot it mid November, thanks for the kind comments 🙏🏼

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#REPORTERS - En #Somalie, les forces armées luttent chaque jour pour repousser les jihadistes de l'organisation l'État islamique, qui se sont installés dans la région du #Puntland.

Reportage exclusif de nos correspondants @bastien_rnl et @willswanson ➡️https://t.co/Q8qKb8mxkb

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@Shemology @FerdyOmondi I'm glad that you are safe.

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Nice to see my (now quite old) photos from North East Kenya getting wheeled out for this story.

It's time for a new crop of journalists to discover the incredible stories hidden away in this part of the world.

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Kenya's border with Somalia will re-open in April almost 15 years after it shut because of attacks by Islamist militant group al-Shabab, President William Ruto has announced.

https://t.co/N1vz8XSqlC

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'Tens of thousands' forced to flee as conflict intensifies in #SouthSudan.

The @ICRC says it has conducted more than 600 surgeries on patients with weapon wounds since December last year https://t.co/AyCVeBnomT

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@davidpilling Love that place - enjoy!

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@robcrilly @dcexaminer congrats on the new gig 🙌

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I had the joy of photographing many of @FilippoGrandi's missions during his time at the helm of @Refugees.

Grateful to have worked together in sharing the stories of those displaced. Their voices mustn't be diminished. We must listen harder through all the noise.

📸/UNHCR