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 ...
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 ...
Argentina's focus has long been on agricultural production and trade, which can be traced back to the sixteenth century when Europeans first settled there. In recent years, Argentina's agribusiness has exploded due to the huge global demand for ...
Kinshasa, a city of 10 million people known as Leopoldville during the colonial era after King Leopold II of the Belgians, stretches along the eastern banks of the Congo river for miles. The seemingly endless sprawl of the low rise city where most ...
Around 5.30 in the evening, the K27 train slowly trundled out of Beijing railway station In the summer of 2017. It was the first time I took the sleeper train between Beijing and Pyongyang which covers a distance of 1,360 km in around 23 hours. The train...
For a number of years, Kacper Kowalski has been wrapping up warm and braving the freezing temperatures aboard his gyroplane or on his paraglider high above northern Poland to capture the magical beauty of forests, fields and farmland covered in pure, ...