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Fred Harter

Fred Harter is a freelance reporter based in east Africa

November 2024

  • A group of women wearing white scarves and carrying flags

    Rounded up, massacred and posted on social media: can Ethiopia bring justice for atrocities in Tigray?

    The country is about to start investigating crimes reported in a brutal regional war. But trust is at an all-time low and survivors feel forgotten

September 2024

  • Farmer Goyteom Tekele outside the warehouse of frankincense wholesaler Tesfaye Merasa in Abi Adi with his sacks of frankincense resin and bark

    The age of extinction
    How the west’s wellness industry is driving Ethiopia’s frankincense trees towards extinction

    As rich westerners fuel demand for the ancient fragrance, a lucrative race for the resin is killing the trees but leaving little of the trade’s profit for those gathering it

August 2024

  • A woman with a parasol walks past a VW Beetle parked in residential neighbourhood of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Ethiopia’s Beetle mania: how an entire country fell in love with Volkswagen’s quirky classic

    A common sight on the streets of the capital, the durable vehicles are workhorses for some, a part of the family for others, while enthusiasts restore them to their former glory

May 2024

  • A girl holds food items and looks at the camera as women look on behind her.

    ‘A colonial mindset’: why global aid agencies need to get out of the way

    With the world’s humanitarian system in crisis, many NGOs now recognise that local charities can deliver much more at far less cost

April 2024

  • A woman serves cups of coffee from a large traditional clay pot

    ‘It’s rude not to offer three cups’: the lengthy, beloved coffee rituals binding Ethiopians together

    Brewing can involve incense, butter, herbs or spices, and takes so long neighbours take it in turns. But they wouldn’t have it any other way
  • A woman smiles as she gestures towards a metal tray of roasted coffee beans, which sit beside a selection of small pottery cups.

    ‘We would not survive without coffee’: how rules made in Europe put Ethiopian farmers at risk

    Coffee is the country’s biggest export, but millions of smallholders are being asked to provide paperwork to prove their land is not deforested
  • A group of young spotted hyenas on the road outside Harar

    The age of extinction
    The hyenas of Harar: how a city fell in love with its bone-crunching carnivores

    In an ancient walled city in eastern Ethiopia, the animals are fed in return for cleaning up the streets and keeping spirits at bay

February 2024

  • Sudanese women and children at a camp for displaced people in North Darfur

    Inside the Darfur camp where a child dies every two hours

    Malnutrition and disease are rife at the ‘overwhelmed’ Zamzam camp – one of hundreds in Sudan, where war has displaced nearly 8 million people
  • Houthi military helicopter flies over the Galaxy Leader cargo ship in the Red Sea

    Houthi attacks in Red Sea having a ‘catastrophic’ effect on aid to Sudan

    Shipments of food and medical supplies from Asia are having to take longer, more expensive routes to avoid seaborne assaults
  • Sudanese women wearing headscarves, with one holding a sign reading: 'I'm coming from Sudan with my daughters, refugees in camp.'

    UN warns of ‘epic suffering’ in Sudan and appeals for $4bn in aid

    Ten months of armed conflict in the country has displaced nearly 11 million people and left half the population facing hunger

January 2024

  • A group of men sitting in the back of a red pickup truck, with one holding the red, yellow and green flag of the Oromo Liberation Army in Oromia, Waliso, Ethiopia

    ‘This is a pandemic’: Ethiopia’s Oromia region gripped by surge in kidnappings

    First it was rebel groups using abduction for political aims, but in a broken economy collecting ransoms is seen as easy money and now anyone can be a target
  • A Somali police officers stands guard during a march against the Ethiopia-Somaliland port deal.

    ‘We are ready for a war’: Somalia threatens conflict with Ethiopia over breakaway region

    Somaliland hoped to be recognised as a country after port deal with landlocked Ethiopia - but move has sparked fury in Somalia

    • The age of extinction
      Mongolia dragged its wild horses back from extinction – can it save the rest of its wildlife?

    • Rights and freedom
      ‘If I go out, I’ll be a target’: fear stalks Uganda over brutal anti-gay laws

    • ‘We’re playing Whac-A-Mole’: why the aid system is broken

December 2023

  • A group in Wad Madani, in south-eastern Sudan, rally in support of Sudan's army in December, as the war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces continues and refugees flee Darfur in western Sudan.

    ‘They told us – you are slaves’: survivors give harrowing testimony of Darfur’s year of hell

    With the war in Sudan poised to escalate and the humanitarian crisis growing, traumatised survivors of a blood-drenched summer in West Darfur tell of their ordeal
  • Sonia Guajajara wearing a blue Indigenous headdress

    We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2023

    From a karaoke-singing paramedic on a boat in Bangladesh to a proud campaigner for a queer museum in Namibia, these are some of the figures who raised our hopes for humanity
  • An RSF fighter jumps off a vehicle in a military convoy in Gedaref, Sudan in August.

    Rape, murder, looting: massacre in Ardamata is the latest chapter in Darfur’s horror story

    Witnesses recall November’s atrocity as the long-running ethnic conflict in Sudan claims more victims

November 2023

  • Refugees from Darfur line up to receive rice portions from Red Cross volunteers in Ourang on the outskirts of Adre, Chad.

    Hunger crisis threatens Chad as funding for food aid falters

  • A herder with his flock in Uvurkhangai, southern Mongolia.

    Dust, hail and bank loans: the Mongolian herders facing life without grass

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