Freelance print and broadcast Journalist https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/annabell-van-den-berghe/rss en Human Rights War Economy Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Annabell Van den Berghe https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/10/31/i-sold-my-sister-to-save-the-family https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/10/31/i-sold-my-sister-to-save-the-family ZAATARI CAMP, JORDAN - Amani turned 22 today. Two months ago she fled from the civil war in Syria and left her house in the capital of Damascus. Civil Society Human Rights War Economy Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Annabell Van den Berghe https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/07/25/the-syrian-farmer-turned-amateur-oil-producer https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/07/25/the-syrian-farmer-turned-amateur-oil-producer RAS AL AYN, Syria / Like many of his countrymen, Abu Zechariah, a now-penniless farmer, spends his days trying to eke out a living. As war makes crop farming here all but impossible, he’s been forced to harvest another kind of crop — oil.