It is 10 years on 7 October 2011 since the beginning of the War in Afghanistan. Precipitated by the terrorist attacks on NY and Washington on 11 November that year, the Taliban regime in power in Afghanistan at the time was quickly toppled by the ...
A one-year-old Nenet nomad will have crossed rivers, braved storms and traversed 1,000 miles of terrain - a journey they will make every year for the rest of their lives as they follow their reindeer across Siberia's Yamal peninsula. 'For us, deer is ...
History has come full circle for South Africa's witkaffers - white Negroes. At the turn of the previous century, many Afrikaners lost everything in the Boer War and had to compete with Blacks for low-paid jobs. They were saved by 'positive ...
Religion has become a flourishing business in poverty-stricken Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, with scores of pentecostal churches springing up in recent years. They promise miracles but deliver little to alleviate worshippers' ...
There is a proverb saying that the Cantonese eat everything on 4 legs except for a table and a chair and everything that flies except for an aeroplane. Dong Wan animal market, in the West of Canton, is the place where the Cantonese get their exotic meat:...
From a Hindu temple in southern India to the smartest salons in the West, the lucrative trade in human hair traverses the globe. It is traditional for Hindus to have their heads shaved at a temple at least once in a lifetime. At Tirumala Tirupati ...
In 2006, five countries in East Africa suffered their worst drought in over a decade. Years of low rainfall in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti were exacerbated by the almost complete failure of the rainy season expected at the end of 2005....
A dry bed scattered with shells and rusting ships is all that remains of a formerly bustling harbour in what was once the world's fourth-largest inland sea. The Soviet Union decided in 1918 that the two rivers that fed the Aral Sea, the Amu Darya and the...
Tanzania's albinos are stalked by cancer, stigmatisation and murder. Albinism is a genetic condition with a recessive inheritance that causes little or no pigmentation in people's eyes, skin or hair. Their lack of melanin means albinos have sandy ...
'Just because they are living in isolation does not give us the right to let them down.' This simple principle drives Friar Richard Hardi, an ophthalmologist based in Mbuji Mayi in the centre of the DR Congo, to venture into some of the remotest ...
For minorities in the new Kosovo, the future is uncertain. In a population of 1.9 million at the end of 2006, around 90% were ethnically Albanian, 6% Serb, 2% Muslim Slavs, with the remainder Roma, Ashkali, Egyptians and Turks. In some instances, notably...
The Moken, a nomadic tribe of sea gypsies who live on the Surin Islands off the western coast of Thailand, survived the South Asian tsunami thanks to a low-tech 'early warning system' based on wisdom passed down through the generations. Elders urged the ...
In the space of six days in July 1995, almost 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were systematically massacred by Serb forces in and around the town of Srebrenica. Infamously, Dutch peacekeeping troops and the wider international community failed to ...
In July 2007 Andrew Testa won the Amnesty International Media Award for Photojournalism for his story on the victims of acid attacks in Bangladesh. The feature was commissioned by Germany's Brigitte magazine and published in the UK by Ei8ht magazine. ...
At the end of the Kosovo war in June 1999, 5,206 people were reported missing by their families. The vast majority were ethnic Albanian civilians killed by Serbian soldiers, police and paramilitaries during the war. Over the next seven years the bodies ...
As Kosovo moves towards statehood, Andrew Testa has embarked on a new project. His aim is to explore the different landscapes of a country which is on the brink of a new start, but which remains scarred by ghosts of the past....