Even though the warring factions in the Central African Republic's latest bout of instability gathered in Brazzaville, Congo, on 23 July to sign a truce, flashes of violence continue to plague this mineral-rich country of 4.5 million which has been ...
It was grand and extravagant, utterly outlandish, and the most expensive infrastructure project of the Soviet era. The BAM, the Baikal-Amur Mainline, is the railway crossing Eastern Russia, running for over 4000 kilometres. Along the way, small ...
At 4am against a starry sky, the bats return from their nightly forage and hang by their millions from the skeletal trees of the mushitu swamp forest.Kasanka National Park covers a mere 390 square kilometres of land in north eastern Zambia, but it has ...
Tall fences and high fees have always kept the majority of black Africans out of their national parks, but what do they think about the wildlife and tourists who lurk inside? Kieran Dodds followed children from two local schools and a women's group on ...
The Bangweulu wetlands are an ever expanding and contracting wilderness spread across 15,000 square kilometres of Zambia's northern plateau. As 17 rivers swell with annual rains, they flood the plains surrounding Lake Bangweulu, creating a unique ...
Golidem has seen a lot in her 94 years. Sitting on the floor of her hut, surrounded by a few meagre possessions and cradling her one-month old great grandson Nkosina lovingly in her arms, she talks eloquently of another time in Zimbabwe, a time when ...
Highland games have their origins in the clan system, where they were used by chieftains to single out their strongest warriors. The modern event takes place over five months every summer. As well as the caber, events include throwing the hammer, ...
'Painting the Forth Bridge' is a popular saying used to describe a task that is never completed. The expression is based on the idea that since its opening in 1890, the Forth Bridge, one of Scotland's most recognisable landmarks, has been in a ...
Some members have been shot at and injured, others got their car burned, experienced verbal abuses and physical abuses also. That's the bad side of being a birdwatcher. An anonymous birdwatcher from Malta. On Malta, it's safer to remain anonymous...
Seventy politicians, civil servants and business people are standing trial in Malawi charged with stealing $100 million (60 million) of government money months before a general election in May 2014. Foreign powers, who provide 40% of the nation's ...
After over three hundred years of union, Scotland will vote in a referendum on 18 September 2014 to decide whether it wants to leave the United Kingdom and become an independent country. A key policy of the Scottish National Party (SNP) since its ...
A politically undecided Kieran Dodds traces the road to independence referendum through the relationship between the Scots and their land. The Scots are a nation of freedom fighters, religious reformers, political innovators, artistic leaders and ...
Move to trash. It's an operation we perform every day on our computer desktops. But what happens when the virtual becomes real? Where do our computers go when they die?The suburb of Agbogbloshie in Ghana's capital, Accra, has in recent years become a ...
From dawn until dusk they toil amid an alien landscape as their ancestors have done for centuries. The salt lake at Katwe in western Uganda is the most important natural resource in the area, and some 700 men, women and children make a living from it. ...
Western Sahara is Africa's last open file at the United Nations Decolonisation Committee. Morocco invaded the territory in 1975 and forced colonial power Spain to withdraw without holding a UN sanctioned referendum on the future of the state. With Franco...
In 1876 the explorer Henry Morton Stanley came upon the Lualaba River in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Stanley was convinced that the Lualaba was connected to the great Congo River which the Portuguese had first sighted 400 years ...