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Nick Hannes

De muur tussen arm en rijk

 
Children are washing clothes in a slum settlement that has grown up outside the security wall of the luxury MAB Global Estate in Gwarinpa district, Abuja, on 10 April 2023.
To relieve the overpopulation of the former Nigerian capital Lagos, a new city was built in the center of the country in the 1980s. Abuja was to become a leading and neutral city that would strengthen unity within the ethnically and religiously divided country and spread economic opportunity. But in turn, Abuja became one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, with a population now reaching almost 4 million and with a huge income gap. Those who can afford it live in one of the many luxurious estates, surrounded by walls, razor wire and checkpoints. The majority of the population however are forced to survive in poverty and insecurity the chaotic outside world. According to a UN report from 2022, 40% of Nigerians have less than one dollar a day.
Two young men are getting water from the public pump in the slums of Mpape, a northern district of Abuja, Nigeria.
To relieve the overpopulation of the former Nigerian capital Lagos, a new city was built in the center of the country in the 1980s. Abuja was to become a leading and neutral city that would strengthen unity within the ethnically and religiously divided country and spread economic opportunity. But in turn, Abuja became one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, with a population now reaching almost 4 million and with a huge income gap. Those who can afford it live in one of the many luxurious estates, surrounded by walls, razor wire and checkpoints. The majority of the population however are forced to survive in poverty and insecurity the chaotic outside world. According to a UN report from 2022, 40% of Nigerians have less than one dollar a day.
 
Waiting area for three-wheeler motorcycle taxis, locally known as keke napep, along Airport Road in Abuja, on 13 April 2023. In the back an unfinished housing estate can be seen.
To relieve the overpopulation of the former Nigerian capital Lagos, a new city was built in the center of the country in the 1980s. Abuja was to become a leading and neutral city that would strengthen unity within the ethnically and religiously divided country and spread economic opportunity. But in turn, Abuja became one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, with a population now reaching almost 4 million and with a huge income gap. Those who can afford it live in one of the many luxurious estates, surrounded by walls, razor wire and checkpoints. The majority of the population however are forced to survive in poverty and insecurity the chaotic outside world. According to a UN report from 2022, 40% of Nigerians have less than one dollar a day.
A salesman gives prospective clients a tour of the scale model on display at Centenary City sales office on 13 April 2023. Centenary City is a planned new city-within-the-city near Abuja International Airport. This luxury and gated compound of 1300 acres, inspired by Dubai’s housing estates, will be an economical freezone to attract foreign investors. It will have the tallest tower of Africa, a giant shopping mall, a five-star hotel, an urban safari park, a theme park, upscale residential blocks and villas and a diplomatic zone.
To relieve the overpopulation of the former Nigerian capital Lagos, a new city was built in the center of the country in the 1980s. Abuja was to become a leading and neutral city that would strengthen unity within the ethnically and religiously divided country and spread economic opportunity. But in turn, Abuja became one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, with a population now reaching almost 4 million and with a huge income gap. Those who can afford it live in one of the many luxurious estates, surrounded by walls, razor wire and checkpoints. The majority of the population however are forced to survive in poverty and insecurity the chaotic outside world. According to a UN report from 2022, 40% of Nigerians have less than one dollar a day.
 
A security guard opens one of the entrance gates to Brains & Hammers City Estate in Lifecamp district, on 14 April 2023. Brains & Hammers, established in 2006, is a Nigerian real estate development company with a focus on the mid to high-end luxury range.
To relieve the overpopulation of the former Nigerian capital Lagos, a new city was built in the center of the country in the 1980s. Abuja was to become a leading and neutral city that would strengthen unity within the ethnically and religiously divided country and spread economic opportunity. But in turn, Abuja became one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, with a population now reaching almost 4 million and with a huge income gap. Those who can afford it live in one of the many luxurious estates, surrounded by walls, razor wire and checkpoints. The majority of the population however are forced to survive in poverty and insecurity the chaotic outside world. According to a UN report from 2022, 40% of Nigerians have less than one dollar a day.
 

Olivier Papegnies

En Turquie, voyage au bout du désastre

 
20240118 - BELGIQUE, LIEGE: Tamara Payne, le 18 janvier 2024. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
20240118 - BELGIQUE, LIEGE: Tamara Payne, le 18 janvier 2024. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
 
20240118 - BELGIQUE, LIEGE: Tamara Payne, le 18 janvier 2024. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
20240118 - BELGIQUE, LIEGE: Tamara Payne, le 18 janvier 2024. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
 
20240118 - BELGIQUE, LIEGE: Tamara Payne, le 18 janvier 2024. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
 

Colin Delfosse

La fièvre de l'or blanc

 
15. Cimetière de voitures de Los Verdes, dans la banlieue de la ville d’Iquique. Cette ville portuaire du Chili est devenue zone franche sous le régime Pinochet. Les importations de voitures d’Asie et des Etats-Unis ont inondés la ville et tout le continent.
Le concentré de lithium est amené par camion à l’usine du Salar del Carmen, près d’Antofagasta une ville côtière située à 300 kilomètres du Salar. Il subit alors un traitement chimique pour être transformé en carbonate de lithium. Contrairement à l’Australie – 1e producteur mondial – le Chili raffine son lithium avant de l’exporter. Le nouveau président, Gabriel Boric, voudrait nationaliser toute la chaine de production.
 
Arturo Espinoza, ingénieur de la société SQM (Sociedad Química y Minera), inspecte les bassins d’évaporation dans le Salar d’Atacama. SQM est le deuxième producteur mondial de lithium. En 2022, la société a produit 152,500 tonnes de carbonate de lithium. Le groupe chinois Tianqi Lithium Corp est son actionnaire principal.
Evaporation pond belonging to SQM (Sociedad Química y Minera) in the Salar of Atacama, Chile. SQM is the world's second-largest lithium producer, whose main shareholder since 2018 has been the Chinese group Tianqi Lithium Corp. By 2022, the company has produced 152,000 MT of lithium carbonate. The extraction process, presented as clean, requires no less than 300,000 litres of water for one tonne of lithium.
 
Brussels Motor Show, January 2023. The new Chinese manufacturer Serres (with the help of miss Belgium and its runners-up) is only offering SUV-type electric vehicles - like most of its competitors. By 2022, more than half of all electric cars sold worldwide will be ... SUVs. An ecological aberration, given the race for raw materials. This type of car consumes three times more copper and aluminium and five times more lithium, nickel and cobalt than a standard car.