The Sweating Subject is a series of group portraits of tribal chiefs and their courts. All of the group portraits also include Jan Banning, the photographer. All the subjects are members of the Gonja or Dagomba tribes in the Northern Territories of ...

On 13 March 2017 the discovery in Sierra Leone of the world's 14th largest diamond ever found was reported around the world. At 709 carat it is also the second largest ever seen in the country. The man who found it is pastor Emmanuel Momoh assisted ...

Red Ant Security Relocation & Eviction Services, or the 'Red Ants' in short, is a private security company in Johannesburg, South Africa, whose employees have become notorious for using excessive force in conducting their operations. They are ...

They drive their children around in armoured minibuses; drones buzz around in the air above their homes. The Ovadia family are always armed when they venture outside their home and their settlement. This year, Israel celebrates the 70th anniversary ...

William Katende, his wife and six children own six hectares of farmland about 300 meters from the equator where they mainly grow matoke, a starchy variety of banana which is picked green and cooked. They sell about half of the food they produce and ...

As one of the fastest expanding economies in the world and the second most populous country in Africa, Ethiopia faces environmental pressures. In Amhara province, the last remaining native forests surround church buildings and have been protected for ...

The Jungle was a refugee camp near Calais in northern France. According to Help Refugees, before it was demolished in 2016 it was home to 9,106 men, women and unaccompanied children living in a muddy expanse of tents and temporary shelters which they...

The Jungle was a refugee camp near Calais in northern France. By August 2016 the camp had trebled in size over the previous year housing some 9,106 men, women and unaccompanied children according to Help Refugees. Most were living in a muddy expanse...

The Jungle was a refugee camp near Calais in northern France. By August 2016 the camp had trebled in size over the previous year housing some 9,106 men, women and unaccompanied children according to Help Refugees. Most were living in a muddy expanse of ...

Seven is the age of all of these children. It is also the number of years the Syrian Civil War has been raging, still with no end in sight. All of these children are born in Syria yet most of them cannot remember their homeland. Like millions of ...

Ciocana Sector in the eastern part of Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, is one of the newest parts of the city. It is a typical product of early Soviet city planning when cheap, multi-storey housing was built across the country to provide cheap and ...

On 19 October 2011, 86 families of Irish Traveller heritage were evicted from their homes on a former scrapyard known as Dale Farm in Essex, southeastern England. Although the Travellers owned the land, the surrounding community would not tolerate ...

Moldova has one of the highest incarceration rates in Europe as well as the highest rate of inmates serving long prison sentences. Penitentiary Nr. 17 in the town of Rezina on the banks of the Dniester River is the most secure prison in the country ...

Sakura or cherry blossom is intimately identified with Japanese culture. For centuries it has been an enduring metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life and symbolises transience and nobility. The fleeting spirit of the Japanese spring is captured ...

Following inter-communal violence in the 1960s between Greek and Turkish populations in Cyprus, then a British colony, Major-General Peter Young, commander of the so-called Peace Force, drew a line across the island with a green chinagraph pencil, an...

Every year, on the 13th day of the first lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the small hamlet of Majie in central Henan province becomes the scene for one of the largest folk festivals in the world. Hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the...