Outriders in English

A Conversation about Shepherds, Land degradation and Climate Change… With the the authors of Outriders latest multimedia story: A Journey with Kenya’s Shepherds An Struggling Against Drought and Land Degradation - Luis Tato, a photographer based in Kenya and nominee for ‘World Press Photo of the Year’ and ‘Nature Stories’ 2021. - Anthony Langat, a journalist covering environment and climate change in Kenya. With the participation of: - Susana Pacheco, coordinator of the first School of Female Shepherds in Spain. Hosts: Jakub Górnicki, CEO of Outriders. Lola García-Ajofrín, a journalist at Outriders.

It is December 30th, 2019. We continue being inside Al-Hol Camp, in eastern Syria, near the border with Iraq, where about 70,000 relatives of ISIS militants, most of them women and children, are held in detention. We met two British women. They wear black niqabs and gloves, like the rest of women. They are only 21 and 25 years old.

It is December 30th, 2019. We are at Al-Hol refugee camp in eastern Syria, in a desert area near the border with Iraq. All these women share a past and an uncertain future. And they are some of the 70,000 relatives of ISIS militants, most of them women and children, who are held in detention in Al-hol camp.   In the bakery, there is a French woman, Leila, who explains that she is the widow of a well-known French ISIS fighter who was killed.

It is December 28th, 2019. We are inside al-Hasakah prison in northeast Syria. There are hundreds of men here from several countries suspected of being affiliated with the terrorist organisation Islamic State (ISIS).

It is December 24th, 2019. A group of young people with Santa hats sing in the Church of Our Lady. It is an Orthodox Church in the Christian district of Al-Calasse, in the city of Al-Hasakah, in Northern Syria. Today, the Christian population of Rojava celebrates Christmas Eve.