Kroo Bay, a slum housing some 6,500 people, many of whom came here to escape the violence and havoc wreaked by 11 years of civil war upcountry, is built onto the sandy shore on Freetown's eastern outskirts and has no sewage or electricity. Its boggy ...
On 11 June 2013, after nearly two weeks of sustained anti-government protests across the country, Turkish riot police were ordered to clear Taksim square, the place where the protests had started. In the beginning, the authorities claimed that they ...
In one of the more unusual contemporary migrations, several thousand Indian farmers have made their way to the former Soviet republic of Georgia, lured by cheap and plentiful arable land which can be in short supply back home. The keen tillers come ...
High up in the Bolivian Andes, indigenous communities meet in the plaza of Macha and take part in a ritual known as Tinku. The Tinku fight is an ancestral ritual in which thousands come together to fist fight. It also happens in Ocuri, close to ...
In September 2010, the Danish newspaper Berlingske published a photo of an 18-month-old orphan from Nepal. The image was accompanied by a short story: In the back room of Nepal's leading public neonatal department is a girl lying alone on a chair....
Mads Nissen went to Libya in the very first week of the unfolding uprising that soon turned into full scale civil war, bringing thousands of haphazardly armed volunteer fighters onto the streets of Libya's cities, determined to bring Muammar ...
The Philippines has one of the fastest growing populations in Southeast Asia. From 50 million inhabitants in 1980, the country today is home to around 90 million people with 11 million living in Manila alone. Living space is increasingly in short ...
The islands of Hong Kong and Macau given back to China by Great Britain and Portugal in 1997 and 1999 respectively are two places where Chinese are permitted, nay encouraged, to indulge in two activities that are otherwise frowned upon on the ...
Once one of the richest republics in the Soviet Union, Moldova, historically known as Bessarabia, is now officially the poorest country in Europe according to the World Bank. Landlocked and wedged in between Romania, an EU member and Ukraine, another...
Every day, around 1,000 women die in child labor or from pregnancy related complications. 99 % of these women are living in the developing world. Until very recently, Nepal had one of the highest rates of maternal deaths in the world. Realising ...
Landlocked Niger is the world's third poorest country, pushed out of first place by war-torn DR Congo and perennially troubled Zimbabwe, according to the UN's Human Development Report. In recent years it has been wracked by food shortages and ...
Mads Nissen about his return to Libya, one year after the revolution: 'In 2011, I covered the war in Libya. I wanted to document the extreme emotions that I witnessed - the pain of loss, the self-sacrifice on the frontline, the anxiety at home. The ...
Despite an official peace treaty to end the devastating five year civil war, also known as the Second Congo War, in 2003 and a set of elections which didn't quite live up to expectations of fairness and transparency, the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
With over 30,000 pregnancies on its score sheet, Cryos International, a sperm bank based in Aarhus, Denmark's second city, is a veritable fertility factory, supplying clinics in more than 70 countries around the world. It was started in 1987 by ...
'I had been walking through the rainforest for several days when I reached a glade. The rainforest stood like a dense, green wall surrounding me. From top to bottom the plants were struggling for light and nourishment - thick lianas, razor-sharp ...
Life for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Russia has just got worse, following the signing by the State Duma of a new law banning 'propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations' among minors with a majority of 436 to 0. The law states...