New beans could transform Kenyan canning industry. Researchers from the University of Nairobi, Kenya have developed superior, better-yielding, drought-resistant varieties of beans. The new varieties that have now gone through...


Leasing delivers strong developmental impact in Africa by playing a critical role helping SMEs access finance, and promoting financial sector development. Nyani Quarmyne travelled to Tanzania, Ghana and Senegal to...


Abdullah was injured when a shell exploded next to him. He needed multiple operations and eventually had his leg amputated. Over the last six months the UK government has supported...


On 7 July 2014, following weeks of growing tensions over the tit-for-tat murders of three young Israeli students and a Palestinian teenager from East Jerusalem and rockets being fired out...


Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a dangerous place for women, or ‘meri’ as they are called in Tok Pisin, the local language. Violence against women is seen as normal. According...


The consequences of some conflicts related to the Arab springs, such as the Libyan and Syrian wars triggered a massive wave of refugees. On 3 October 2013, 366 immigrants trying...


Meet Beatrice’s family: there’s Elizabeth, Ruth, Margaret, Francis, Samuel, John, Kelvin, and Linda & Mary the twins. Elizabeth, the eldest, wants to be a lawyer. Beatrice wants all her children...


The House of Culture of the Blind in Yerevan has stood almost empty since the fall of the Soviet Union due to a lack of funding for disabled people in...


‘Women’s Voices: Michelle’ is part of a series of three short films on abortion produced by Panos for the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Video by Adam Patterson.


‘Women’s Voices: Juliette’ is part of a series of three short films on abortion produced by Panos for the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Video by Abbie Trayler-Smith.


‘Women’s Voices: Bhakti’ is part of a series of three short films on abortion produced by Panos for the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Video by Suzanne Lee.


A cluster bomb is dropped and ten years later people are still being affected by it. Over the years, up to 8,000 people have been killed or injured in Iraq...


Around the world, some 287,000 women die every year from complications during pregnancy or childbirth and according to recent figures 6.6 million children have died before reaching their 5th birthday....


On 1 September 1914 Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died in Cincinnati Zoo. Once the world’s most abundant bird it fell victim to excessive hunting and deforestation within a few...


Long since the days of William Wallace, imortalised and mythologised by Hollywood in 90’s film Braveheart, we ask his possible successors and namesakes to share their views on life, freedom...


“The greatness of his mind is such that he rather chooseth to die than be taken alive: wherein the unicorn and the valiant-minded soldier are alike, which both contemn to...