Five years after the Orange Revolution promised to transform Ukraine, excitement has given way to fatigue. The economy shrank by 15% in 2009, and the country lies 17th from bottom in the global index of economic freedom. The first round of the 2010 ...
50 years after Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev's now famous 'secret speech' denouncing the crimes of Josef Stalin, an official museum dedicated to the Soviet dictator opened its doors in Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad, in 2006. Initiated by...
Malaria takes its name from the Italian and means literally 'bad air'. For a long time the Romans believed that the fever was caused by the putrid air of marshlands, not knowing that the real cause is the Anopheles mosquito which thrives in such areas. ...
I arrived in Haiti ten days after the apocalyptic earthquake of January 12th. The world had been watching in disbelief horrific images of mountains of bodies burning in the streets or thrown in mass graves. When I arrived in the country there were ...
A bloody uprising in Kyrgyzstan in April 2010 saw the country's president flee the capital. Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva claimed to have taken control, stating 'You can call this revolution. You can call this a people's revolt. Either way, it is our...
On the 12th of June 2010, the city of Osh exploded in violence. Clashes occurred between the two main ethnic groups - Uzbeks and Kyrgyz - in southern Kyrgyzstan. As a result, up to 2,000 people were killed and more than 400,000 displaced, and many ...
Tuberculosis remains a serious threat to public health in Kyrgyzstan, and the country's prisons are a primary breeding ground for the disease. The incidence of TB in Kyrgyz jails is about 25 times higher than in the general population, and the rate ...
Though the subject matter is somewhat out of his usual realm of experience, William Daniels thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of finding an innovative approach to the unfamiliar world of "haute couture" As he remembers about his week with some of ...
From 11 until 15 April 2011, William Daniels' striking photographic study of the scourge of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in countries across Africa and Asia, will be exhibited in a central location in the middle of the European Parliament in ...
The uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's 40-year rule which started in February 2011 in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi has pulled the entire country into all-out civil war. The violence between rebel forces and those loyal to Gaddafi's teetering ...
When news started to filter through that rebel forces were poised to enter the capital Tripoli, William Daniels felt compelled to make his way back to Libya where he had covered the fighting and the humanitarian crisis earlier in the year. Once back ...
What has become known as the Occupy movement in the English-speaking world, or Indignados and Indignés in Spain and France respectively, is a loose network of separate protests or protest movements in over 80 countries that broadly question ...
In 1982, the Syrian city of Hama rose up against the autocratic regime of Hafez al Assad, the current Syrian president's father, and became a symbol of the brutal length to which Syria's rulers were prepared to go to remain in power. At the time, ...
The Central African Republic (CAR) has seen more than its fair share of coups and unrest over the five and a half decades since its independence from France. The current crisis, however, triggered by yet another coup d'etat, is starting to pit a well...
The Central African Republic (CAR) has seen more than its fair share of coups and unrest over the five and a half decades since its independence from France. The current crisis, however, triggered by yet another coup d'etat, has turned into an ...
Even though the warring factions in the Central African Republic's latest bout of instability gathered in Brazzaville, Congo, on 23 July to sign a truce, flashes of violence continue to plague this mineral-rich country of 4.5 million which has been ...
It was grand and extravagant, utterly outlandish, and the most expensive infrastructure project of the Soviet era. The BAM, the Baikal-Amur Mainline, is the railway crossing Eastern Russia, running for over 4000 kilometres. Along the way, small ...
At 4am against a starry sky, the bats return from their nightly forage and hang by their millions from the skeletal trees of the mushitu swamp forest.Kasanka National Park covers a mere 390 square kilometres of land in north eastern Zambia, but it has ...
Tall fences and high fees have always kept the majority of black Africans out of their national parks, but what do they think about the wildlife and tourists who lurk inside? Kieran Dodds followed children from two local schools and a women's group on ...
The Bangweulu wetlands are an ever expanding and contracting wilderness spread across 15,000 square kilometres of Zambia's northern plateau. As 17 rivers swell with annual rains, they flood the plains surrounding Lake Bangweulu, creating a unique ...
Golidem has seen a lot in her 94 years. Sitting on the floor of her hut, surrounded by a few meagre possessions and cradling her one-month old great grandson Nkosina lovingly in her arms, she talks eloquently of another time in Zimbabwe, a time when ...
Highland games have their origins in the clan system, where they were used by chieftains to single out their strongest warriors. The modern event takes place over five months every summer. As well as the caber, events include throwing the hammer, ...
'Painting the Forth Bridge' is a popular saying used to describe a task that is never completed. The expression is based on the idea that since its opening in 1890, the Forth Bridge, one of Scotland's most recognisable landmarks, has been in a ...
Some members have been shot at and injured, others got their car burned, experienced verbal abuses and physical abuses also. That's the bad side of being a birdwatcher. An anonymous birdwatcher from Malta. On Malta, it's safer to remain anonymous...
Seventy politicians, civil servants and business people are standing trial in Malawi charged with stealing $100 million (60 million) of government money months before a general election in May 2014. Foreign powers, who provide 40% of the nation's ...
After over three hundred years of union, Scotland will vote in a referendum on 18 September 2014 to decide whether it wants to leave the United Kingdom and become an independent country. A key policy of the Scottish National Party (SNP) since its ...
A politically undecided Kieran Dodds traces the road to independence referendum through the relationship between the Scots and their land. The Scots are a nation of freedom fighters, religious reformers, political innovators, artistic leaders and ...
Move to trash. It's an operation we perform every day on our computer desktops. But what happens when the virtual becomes real? Where do our computers go when they die?The suburb of Agbogbloshie in Ghana's capital, Accra, has in recent years become a ...
From dawn until dusk they toil amid an alien landscape as their ancestors have done for centuries. The salt lake at Katwe in western Uganda is the most important natural resource in the area, and some 700 men, women and children make a living from it. ...
Western Sahara is Africa's last open file at the United Nations Decolonisation Committee. Morocco invaded the territory in 1975 and forced colonial power Spain to withdraw without holding a UN sanctioned referendum on the future of the state. With Franco...
In 1876 the explorer Henry Morton Stanley came upon the Lualaba River in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Stanley was convinced that the Lualaba was connected to the great Congo River which the Portuguese had first sighted 400 years ...
Gaza has been under Israeli blockade since Hamas took control in June 2007. During this time, much needed construction materials have been prevented from entering the strip, leading to the closure of all of Gaza's concrete and block factories. In...
Yangambi Research Station is the former Belgian headquarters for all major ecological, biological and agricultural research in Africa between the 1930s and 1960. It stretches for 33 km inland from the Congo river and contains 250 residential houses ...
Over half the world's refugees now live in large towns and cities where they are confronted by a unique set of challenges. The traditional image of life in tented, sprawling camps no longer tells the full refugee story. As urbanisation reshapes much ...
Lebanon is teetering on the brink. As the civil war continues unabated in Syria, its smaller neighbour is increasingly being sucked into the chaos raging next door. Long subordinate to Damascus, the tiny nation of some 4 million people is as tense ...
Syria's troubled capital, Damascus, has been under siege from opposition forces since 2012. Almost everyday the sound of artillery fire echoes from the suburbs as government troops pound rebel lines, lines which during July 2012 crossed briefly into the ...