As countries across West Africa announce that they have finally managed to contain the worst Ebola outbreak ever which has claimed over 11,000 lives, the virus continues to linger in Guinea, the country where it first struck. Guinea's decision not to...

Five years after the momentous events of the Arab Spring unfolded in Egypt which saw the autocratic regime of Hosni Mubarak brought to an end, Samuel Aranda travels across the country documenting the difficult changes the country is going through. ...

Each year, thousands of Fulani (Peul) nomads take their herds on an epic journey from Mauritania in Western Africa through Mali and into Niger in search of food, water and better pastures for their cattle. They are the largest nomadic ethnic group in...

On 1 October 2017, a referendum in Catalonia asked voters a simple question - 'Do you want Catalonia to become an independent state in the form of a republic?' The answer of the vast majority of those who turned out to vote and were able to cast ...

The Dia de Yemenja (Day of Yemenja) is an annual event in the Brazilian city of Salvador de Bahia which coincides with the day dedicated to Our Lady of Seafaring (Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes) in the Catholic Church on the 2nd of February. As is ...

When the lower house of the Brazilian parliament voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff on 17 April 2016, conservative congressman Jair Bolsonaro, a former army parachutist and a possible 2018 presidential candidate, dedicated his vote to the ...

The term 'wealth management' is used in the elite retail divisions of international banks to distinguish special banking services from the mass-market offerings. It refers to a personalised service which combines financial advice, investment strategy...

Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia all share a border with either Russia or, in Poland's case, with Belarus, a close ally of Russia. Following the Ukrainian revolution and the ensuing civil war in the country's East as well as the Russian annexation ...

Much of the media's attention on the migrant crisis facing the European Union has focused on southern Europe, with Greece and Italy in the spotlight as the two countries most refugees and migrants aim for on their hope-filled journeys toward the ...

Over the course of the migrant crisis that unfolded in the spring and summer of 2015 and dominated European news headlines until well into 2016, the Balkan countries of Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia saw the biggest mass ...

Europe's migrant crisis has rattled the European Union, calling into question the notion of open borders and cooperation between member countries on some of the most fundamental issues. The most concentrated influx of migrants over the two years ...

The Solomon Islands form a spectacular archipelago of islands, volcanoes and coral atolls off the eastern edges of Papua New Guinea. The islands are rich in indigenous culture and visually stunning. This Pacific idyll is now facing severe challenges...

On Alaska's remote Bering Sea coast, citizens of the United States, the world's largest economy and most powerful country, are fighting a desperate battle against the most serious environmental problem in human history: climate change. The roughly ...

Tokelau is one of the smallest and most remote nations in the world. Consisting of three coral atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 580 km north of American Samoa and covering a mere 10 square kilometres in combined surface area, it can only be...

Global warming is affecting the entire planet but the people, flora and fauna in the Pacific region are particularly vulnerable. In the southern Pacific powerful super-cyclones and 'king tides' are occurring ever more frequently. In the North, ...

Winter, or 'zima' in Russian, is a definitive season in Russia. Two thirds of the country is covered in snow and ice and winter can last from three to nine months, depending on the region. The effect on people and daily life is, in some sense, ...