What do Adele, Leona Lewis, Katie Melua and the late Amy Winehouse have in common other than their talent and extraordinary success over the past years? They're all alumni of the London School for Performing Arts & Technology, more commonly known as ...
Charities try to help people in less affluent parts of the world with a variety of donations, from food and monetary payments to sending their staff to care for people without access to medical services. But Oxfam's latest campaign - "The Big Bra ...
Like much of the Sahel, Chad's Guera region is experiencing another bout of an all too familiar phenomenon: severe drought, food shortages, hunger and chronic malnutrition. Up to 18 million people across the Sahel are facing a severe food crisis and ...
Despite the fact that they were in the vanguard of the revolution which toppled the country's long serving strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh in February 2012, Yemen's women have yet to see any meaningful improvement in their daily lives. Not only are a ...
The Rev George Buannie is a powerfully built man, with a voice to match. And in the dirt-poor village of Binkolo, in northern Sierra Leone, he's talking serious stuff to a local farmer. Not about how tough it is to survive in one of the poorest ...
'We are not going to give up our country because of a mere X. How can a ballpoint pen fight with a gun?' Robert Mugabe, June 2008. Zimbabwe's electoral commission, derided for its procrastination following the first round of the presidential election in ...
Basamae The last thing Basamae Maombi would see was the face of the man raping her. She had recognised him and called out his name, hoping the pain and indignity of the attack would stop. But it only made things worse. He held her down, pulled out his...
Zimbabweans are facing a ferocious cholera epidemic which has affected more than 90,000 people since August 2008 and killed at least 4,100. In April 2009 the charity Merlin reported that the situation remained grave: 'The scarcity of trained health ...
A bloody denouement to 26 years of civil war has left Sri Lanka's minority Tamil population facing an uncertain future. Following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers, up to 270,000 Tamils were held in camps under the control of victorious government forces. ...
Amid the bleakly beautiful mountainscape of eastern Zimbabwe, a vast new diamond field was discovered in 2006. These 400 square miles of scrubland around Marange promised to bring untold wealth to this bankrupt nation, but for the people living ...
Clutching her mop and standing in a pool of dirty water, Laukaziemma Koko stands apart. For most of her life she lived in the shadows, working as a cleaner at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein for a wage of 70 pence an hour. She was ...
'Dear God, how many can there be?' whispered the captain of the Libyan coastguard vessel to his deckhand. As the rescue ship drew closer its searchlight picked out the corpses floating around the wrecked fishing boat. Even for experienced mariners, ...
Exhausted and caked in mud, they plough wearily on searching toxic water for traces of gold. Some look west from where they fled, across the border to Zimbabwe; towards home. There, the life of miners are even harder. Here in Mozambique, at least, ...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in three Somalis suffers from some kind of mental illness. Wars, famines and natural disasters not only leave the dead to be buried but also the survivors who need to go on living. While many will...
Some groups either affected by or suffering from HIV/AIDS do not have access to proper care. These include injecting drug users, sex workers and homosexuals, many of whom are excluded because of what they are or what they do. They are more vulnerable...
The West is accustomed to tales of barbarism committed in third world countries by military regimes led by ill-educated thugs in uniform - Bokassa, Amin, Pol Pot. But it has been flummoxed by Mugabe. He is a highly educated, suave and eloquent man ...