Palm oil has been used for cooking in Africa for thousands of years. Yet more recently, it has become a highly lucrative cash crop that is used in thousands of products ranging from cleaning detergents , shampoo and cosmetics to chocolate, ice cream and ...

In northern Uganda, a mysterious illness affects thousands of children from the Acholi ethnic group between the ages of 5 and 15. To date, no one is known to have recovered from the disease and little is known about its causes, even though it affects ...

In an inaccessible and remote part of Madagascar where the state has virtually no presence, the local Vezo community has set up a marine protected area (MPA) to take control of its sole economic resource - the ocean. Their holistic approach covers ...

Payasito Nochi (aka Nochi the Clown), had a difficult childhood. Neglected by his mother, he turned to drugs at an early age in the decaying social landscape in which Guatemala has been mired over the past decades. The name Nochi comes from his nickname ...

Mexican priest Alejandro Solalinde, despite multiple death threats over the years from both gangs and government authorities for his work to protect Central American migrants, is now campaigning for the right to a free transit permit for those travelling...

Spain is a diverse country, but police disproportionately stop and search people based on their racial, ethnic, or religious appearance. Research shows that ethnic profiling has a profound and long-term impact on individuals’ sense of belonging. In...

Luzira Maximum Security Prison on the outskirts of Kampala, the Ugandan capital, is a grim place. Built in the 1920s by the British colonial administration to house 1,700 inmates Luzira today, like many African prisons, is hopelessly overcrowded, often ...

The story of the Martyrs of Namugongo marks a turning point in Uganda's recent history and forms an integral part of it's Christian consciousness. On 3 June 1886, at the court of King Mwanga II of Buganda, 32 young men who served as pages were burned to ...

In Wakaliga slum in the Ugandan capital Kampala, Isaac Nabwana (aka Nabwana IGG) has put the country on the cinematic map by producing dozens of ultra-low budget action movies that feature helicopter raids, martial arts sequences, zombies and lots of ...

Since 2015, Burmese photographer Ko Myo has been documenting the battle to save Myanmars elephants. The country is home to one of the largest wild elephant populations in Southeast Asia, but specialists are warning that they could be wiped out within ten...

Over several years, photographer Steve Forrest has documented the hustle and bustle of College Green, an area of grass outside the Houses of Parliament that regularly plays host to television interviews with politicians. From the premiership of Tony ...

On 11 July 2016, the day she became Prime Minister, Theresa May famously said that "Brexit means Brexit". Almost a thousand days and a thousand political convulsions later, both the British public, and increasingly the British government, seem ...

"We're so lucky to have British soldiers bringing us firewood" says Kaisa-Wenche Vivisdatter, a volunteer at a remote trekking cabin. High in the mountains of a Norwegian national park, nearly 400 km north of the arctic circle, the enormous ...

In 2011 South Sudan gained independence from Sudan and become the worlds newest country. Yet old grievances between different communities in the new nation quickly erupted into a brutal civil war in 2013, causing thousands to seek safety across the ...

Ivory Coast is uniquely dependent on cacao which accounts for 40% of national export income and is thought to be the main source of livelihood for around 6 million of the country's 26 million inhabitants. Ahead of Ghana, the other major producer in West ...

For Salvadoran women who suffer a miscarriage, the physical and emotional trauma of losing a child can be the start of a life-changing ordeal consisting of poor medical treatment, arrest without recourse to legal advice and imprisonment for up to 40 ...

Footprints follows Elisavet Ticona, a migrant from the countryside living with her four daughters in a deprived area in El Alto, Bolivia. After separating from her husband and living in harsh conditions with her daughters she eventually entered the ...

A short film for South African NGO Khula Foundation, describing the charity’s work and impact in 19 schools in the Zulu heartland, supporting thousands of children and, by extention, their communities. ...

“It’s been six years. It feels like yesterday.” Almost a thousand people enter Mexico daily, heading for the US. Some never make it – they are kidnapped, imprisoned or killed along the way. Each year, in a bid to find their lost loved ...

The unexpected story of a young mother who commutes from Mexico to the US every day. Karla Nutter is one of thousands of dual citizens who straddle a line that members of their families are barred from crossing. This is the story of her daily commute. ...

A short documercial film shot in Mexico following Phil Martin on his search to find the best producers for his tortilla factory in Ireland. Blanco Niño makes awesome, authentic and naturally gluten free corn tortillas from beautiful nixtamalised and ...

Marielle Franco, a Brazilian politician and LGBT and human-rights activist, was killed in March 2018. While coming to terms with the death of her partner, Monica Benicio continues the fight to give a voice to those who are deemed disposable in Brazil: ...

Brazil and soccer: the two are practically synonymous. In a country with over 200 million people, everyone gets a chance to play, including the blind. For Andre de Souza Carlos, soccer provided a fuel to keep fighting after he lost his vision. During ...

Papua New Guinea’s rainforests are being torn down at an alarming rate, and the people whose lives depend on them are facing intimidation and abuse when they try to speak out, says Global Witness.​ One of these activists, Paul Pavol, received this ...

The Cerrado, the Brazilian savanna, is the world’s oldest tropical biome. It covers 25 percent of Brazil’s land mass, in the central part of the country. But it is being cleared two times faster than the Amazon. Despite its richness, the Cerrado ...

The death of four US soldiers in Niger in 2017 put the spotlight on the west African country in a way that it has never experienced before. Already it seems like people's attention is beginning to fade as new catastrophes engulf the news cycle. That ...

Parmigiano Reggiano is one of Italy's premier export products and a pillar of Italian cuisine that has become a staple of middle class kitchens the world over. Its rustic image - the dense, uneven chunks of cheese made of unpasteurised milk that can ...

Today's cruise ships resemble small towns, complete with shops, restaurants, cafes, discotheques, fitness rooms, casinos, swimming pools and even mini golf courses. In the fight against boredom, a team of animators organises round the clock activities ...

On 7th January 1979, the Vietnamese Army entered Phnom Penh and established a pro-Vietnamese Kampuchean state, known as the People's Republic of Kampuchea, liberating Cambodia of the scourge of the Khmer Rouge killing machine. The Khmer Rouge leadership,...

Less than four weeks before the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union, failing a last minute compromise or extension of the negotiating period, Piotr Malecki walked around London and asked a random mix of people how they thought Brexit would ...

Lagos is a place of superlatives. The most populous city in Africa, home to one of the busiest seaports on the continent, the commercial capital of a country that now boasts Africa's biggest economy and one of the fastest growing urban centres in the ...

It's common for western charities to collect used clothes and ship them, by the bale, to Africa as a form of aid. These donations, discarded by well-meaning Americans and Europeans, rarely make it to the end-user as charity though. Instead, donations are...

"I pointed out to the little prince that baobabs were not little bushes but, on the contrary, trees as big as castles; and that even if he took a whole herd of elephants away with him, the herd would not eat up one single baobab." Antoine de...

The shores of Lake Naivasha northeast of Kenya's capital Nairobi, made famous by the film 'Out of Africa', are covered in swathes of greenhouses producing one of the country's most valuable agricultural exports. Two fifths of all roses sold in Europe are...

Mennonites are Christians Anabaptists who arrived in Bolivia during the 1950s from Canada, Mexico and Belize. The government in Bolivia promised them land and religious freedom, and they came with the hope of preserving their traditional, simple way of ...

Over the past 15 years, Paraguay's landscape and economy have undergone drastic changes. Production of genetically modified soybean has bolstered the landlocked country's coffers to make it one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America. As of ...