Floods in Emilia-Romagna

The devastating floods that engulfed the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna this month, claiming the lives of 15 individuals, displacing thousands, and bringing transportation and businesses to a standstill, are not isolated incidents, warn experts. [...]

By |June 19, 2023|Comments Off on Floods in Emilia-Romagna

Fragments of Legacy: Berlusconi’s death

The passing of Silvio Berlusconi on June 12, marked the conclusion of a remarkable chapter in Italian politics, characterized by its duration, significance, and vibrant nature. It provoked strong sentiments from devoted supporters and steadfast [...]

By |June 17, 2023|Comments Off on Fragments of Legacy: Berlusconi’s death

childhood cancer in ukraine’s war

Unseen victims: The Cancer-Stricken Children of Ukraine's War Ukraine has one of the highest rates in Europe in terms of children who are diagnosed with cancer. Chornobyl's Nuclear disasters have had a devastating impact on [...]

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Russian POWs in Ukraine

"The defeated have their faces to the wall and their heads bowed, for that is the way of things in the prisoner of war camp. They hold their hands behind their backs as if bound [...]

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Floods in South Sudan

South Sudan has been facing an unprecedented environmental crisis since 2019, with relentless rain seasons causing widespread flooding and destruction throughout the country, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. The situation is so [...]

By |March 9, 2023|Comments Off on Floods in South Sudan

Loss & Damage: Climate crisis in SS

The climate crisis is exacerbating the vulnerability of this already unstable country, bringing it ever closer to collapse. It is imperative that immediate action is taken to address the root causes of this crisis and [...]

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The Russian Invasion: Battle of Kharkiv

Kharkiv, The second largest city in Ukraine with 1.5 million people, located in the northeast of the country less than 40 kilometers from the Russian border, was considered a major target for the Russian military [...]

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The Russian Invasion: The Siege of Kyiv

On February 24th, 2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, igniting a violent escalation of the crisis that has plagued the region since 2014. After weeks of deploying their army along the borders, the Russians [...]

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Covid-19: 2nd wave coverage italy

Bergamo’s Pandemic Survivors Carry Scars Unseen and Incalculable Plagued by guilt, anger and regrets, those still alive in the hardest hit place in Italy, and perhaps the world, grapple to understand how the virus has [...]

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Covid-19: Left Behind

Left Behind is the story of the last, of all those who have been left behind, forgotten by the decrees, by the laws of social and humanitarian aid during the Covid-19 emergency. The Covid-19 pandemic [...]

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Covid-19: the European epicenter

"We Take the Dead From Morning Till Night" At the moment when the coronavirus was ripping through northern Italy, working on assignment for The New York Times, I gained exclusive access to the Red Cross [...]

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The Fight against neoliberalism

In 2019 the biggest civil unrest in Chile's recent history broke out against the increased cost of living and the growing privatization of Sebastian Piñera government. In the last 30 years, neoliberal economic policies have [...]

By |January 15, 2020|Comments Off on The Fight against neoliberalism

The Amazon Rainforest

According to the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the number of Amazon forest fires in 2019 increased by 84% compared to 2018. Rondonia, the western region of Brazil, is one of the most deforested [...]

By |January 15, 2020|Comments Off on The Amazon Rainforest

American Chimera

American Chimera wants to rise questions on the migration phenomenon while challenging the stereotypes related to the illegal migration from Central America to United States. Tijuana, Mexico | November, December 2018 Kentucky, USA | April, [...]

By |October 29, 2019|Comments Off on American Chimera

American Chimera Mirna&Marely

Mirna is a 45-year-old Honduran woman who decided to leave her country of origin with her daughter Mirna-Marely after frequent threats and violence perpetrated against her family. Mirna had a small shop in Colon, Honduras, [...]

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Abruzzo Earthquake 10 years later

Il tempo scorre diversamente da come lo vivi. E’ la quarta dimensione, relativa ed effimera, così difficile da immaginare che ce ne rendiamo conto solo quando la sentiamo scivolare sulla nostra pelle. Disegna la vita [...]

By |September 11, 2019|Comments Off on Abruzzo Earthquake 10 years later

The Border Wall

Thousands of migrants have arrived at the US-Mexico border city of Tijuana after traveling more than 4,000 km from their home countries in Central America. Most of them are fleeing persecution, poverty and violence in [...]

By |February 21, 2019|Comments Off on The Border Wall

The Great March of Return

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Nakba ("Catastrophe") when in 1948 more than 750.000 Palestinian were forced to leave their native lands. Today in Gaza hundred thousand of refugees still waiting for their right of return. What’s behind [...]

By |September 3, 2018|Comments Off on The Great March of Return

CATALAN WAVE OF INDEPENDENCE

On October and November 2017 I went back to Barcelona, this time to cover the Catalan movement for independence from Spain working for AFP and for the italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano.  On October 1st, Catalans went to [...]

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WRESTLING FOR PEACE

South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on July 2011 becoming the world newest country as the outcome of an agreement that ended Africa’s longest-running civil war. The independence did not bring conflict in South Sudan [...]

By |November 1, 2017|Comments Off on WRESTLING FOR PEACE

Famine and cholera in south sudan

After 22 years of war against the North of the country, which ended in 2005, and a transition phase which lasted five years, in July 2011 South Sudan won its independence, through a national referendum [...]

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Dispatches from Iraq

On December 2016 I went to Sulaymaniyah, a city of Iraqi Kurdistan near the border with Iran, on assignment for an Italian No-Government Organisation to develop a project on the Syrian refugees and the Iraqi [...]

By |May 20, 2017|Comments Off on Dispatches from Iraq

The Libyan War

The Libyan revolution began on February 2011, in the wake of the riots that changed the Arab world. In contrast with what happened in Tunisia and in Egypt, in a few weeks the Libyan Revolution [...]

By |April 5, 2017|Comments Off on The Libyan War

Defeating IS in Libya

I was in Libya for the first time at the beginning of the civil war, in February 2011. In 2016 I went back to Sirte cover the conflict against the Islamic State.  During the war [...]

By |February 21, 2017|Comments Off on Defeating IS in Libya

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