Glasgow may well be the most passionate football city on earth. Its two mighty teams, Celtic and Rangers, are known collectively as the 'Old Firm', a sobriquet which hints at the stranglehold they have had on Scottish football for over 100 years. The ...
The 1992 famine in Somalia was, in common with many famines, as much the result of the civil war as the climatic conditions. In 1991 President Barre was overthrown by opposing clans, but they failed to agree on a replacement and plunged the country into ...
On 29th August 1949 the first Russian plutonium bomb was exploded at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, which came to be known as 'The Polygon'. This first detonation was followed by more than 500 nuclear explosions, both atmospheric and underground. ...
During the four year conflict in Bosnia more than 200,000 citizens were killed. Most of these were Muslim civilians murdered by paramilitaries during the ethnic cleansing of eastern and western Bosnia. Towns like Priedor, Banja Luka, Foca, Zepa and of ...
From the beginning of the Bosnian conflict in 1992, Paul Lowe takes us on a journey through Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Gorazde and Mostar - places that back then reverberated in the daily headlines much as Fallujah and Basra have done in more recent times. ...
It has a peculiar beauty, a concrete monolith winding across the landscape like a modernist snake in featureless grey concrete. Forty years after a war in which the Israeli military easily defeated the armies of three Arab nations and trebled its ...
For the players of FC Nepean Stars, a First Division Sierra Leonean football club, conditions could barely contrast more with the pampered lifestyle of their counterparts in Europe. Their squad of 18 players journey to matches in a single Toyota ...
'Are we protected in Pakistan?' asks graffiti on the wall of a burned-out shop in Shanti Nagar in the country's wheat belt. It provides its own stark answer: 'No'. Pakistan's three million Christians are nervous. They have been at the bottom of the ...
Graeme Williams began his photographic career as a photojournalist documenting the struggle to end apartheid. He never intended to become a photojournalist but as the clamour for Nelson Mandela's release grew in the late 1980s and the violence broke ...
Since 2010, Graeme Williams has been working on his project charting the transformation of South Africa's society since the end of minority rule. I began this project 16 years after the end of apartheid rule in South Africa. As a photographer, I ...
The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan has left at least 200,000 people dead and an estimated two million displaced. The conflict has spread to neighbouring Chad and the Central African Republic, with up to four and a half million people ...
Sleeping sickness, once thought almost eradicated through vigorous colonial control programmes in the first half of the 20th century, was for a while relegated to historical footnotes in medical textbooks. Now it's making a come back in a big way. The ...
The humanitarian situation in Goma remains desperate. Over a million people are displaced, and many of those have fled their homes for the second, third or even fourth time because of conflict. Sven Torfinn reports from the Kibati camp, where Medecins ...
When peace finally came, the daunting task of building a new country could begin. There were only ten kilometres of tarmacked road in Southern Sudan, which covers an area the size of Spain and Portugal combined. An estimated six million people, more than...
In 2006, a motorcycle-riding suicide bomber rode into a crowd at a wrestling match in the town of Spin Boldak, killing at least twenty people. But Afghans are serious about sport, and have not allowed such incidents to put them off. In October 2009, ...
Vincent left Ghana at the age of 16. His journey was long and arduous, and his eventual success in reaching Europe was down to a combination of luck and his extraordinary determination. When I met him five years later he was living in Amsterdam. He ...