Almost a million migrants arrived in Europe in 2015, over 800,000 of them in Germany. Most have come through the Balkans, most recently arriving in Austria from Slovenia. If Germany shuts its gates, Austrians worry they'll be the ones left without a...

The wars that swept across the Balkans in the early 1990s as former Yugoslavia imploded, pitted former compatriots against each other along ethnic and sectarian lines. Supported and encouraged by Slobodan Milosevic's government in Belgrade, Bosnian ...

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.' George Orwell Red Utopia is a beautifully executed large format art photo book documenting communist parties and their iconography in India, Italy, ...

On 26 April 2016 it will be 30 years to the day since the worst nuclear accident in human history. On this day in 1986, at 1.23am Moscow time, during an experiment to test safety procedures in the event of power failure, reactor number 4 at the ...

The Greek island of Lesvos has for the past year been at the forefront of a migration crisis that has seen over a million people making their way into the European Union, mainly from the Middle East and Africa. Due to being a mere 5.5 kilometres from...

After numerous setbacks, delays and cost overruns the Panama Canal's massive expansion project, nine years in the making, is finally reaching completion with a launch date of 26 June 2016. Originally opened in 1914 the expansion, which is supposed ...

It bills itself as a "unique, exclusive and professional butlering and house management schoolthe finest and most innovative butler service training institute in the world." Set in Huize Damiaan, a former monastery founded in 1892 by the followers ...

Over the course of five trips to the US, George Georgiou photographed 26 parades while covering 13,000 miles across the country. Here are his thoughts about their significance: "Three or four years ago, I was traveling around the United States, ...

She was shielding her eyes from the sun, a lone Orthodox nun, framed by the blades of the helicopter's rotors against snow-capped mountains and a flawless blue sky. I was hitchhiking, riding out on a Georgian Border Police chopper to begin an ...

Coastal and riverine erosion are not new phenomena on the Ghana coast. However, the pace of change has accelerated drastically in recent years, sweeping away homes and livelihoods and, according to some experts, foreshadowing the fate of many of ...

For years they lived as ordinary Norwegian until the police turned up and sent them back to their home countries. While asylum applications are processed and rejections are appealed, children of asylum seekers begin school, learn Norwegian and make ...

As winter descends on Europe, thousands of refugees continue to arrive at its frontiers, the vast majority of them on the Greek islands close to the coast of Turkey which is home to over 1 million Syrian refugees. They carry all their belongings and...

As countries across West Africa announce that they have finally managed to contain the worst Ebola outbreak ever which has claimed over 11,000 lives, the virus continues to linger in Guinea, the country where it first struck. Guinea's decision not to...

Five years after the momentous events of the Arab Spring unfolded in Egypt which saw the autocratic regime of Hosni Mubarak brought to an end, Samuel Aranda travels across the country documenting the difficult changes the country is going through. ...

Each year, thousands of Fulani (Peul) nomads take their herds on an epic journey from Mauritania in Western Africa through Mali and into Niger in search of food, water and better pastures for their cattle. They are the largest nomadic ethnic group in...

On 1 October 2017, a referendum in Catalonia asked voters a simple question - 'Do you want Catalonia to become an independent state in the form of a republic?' The answer of the vast majority of those who turned out to vote and were able to cast ...

The Dia de Yemenja (Day of Yemenja) is an annual event in the Brazilian city of Salvador de Bahia which coincides with the day dedicated to Our Lady of Seafaring (Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes) in the Catholic Church on the 2nd of February. As is ...

When the lower house of the Brazilian parliament voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff on 17 April 2016, conservative congressman Jair Bolsonaro, a former army parachutist and a possible 2018 presidential candidate, dedicated his vote to the ...

The term 'wealth management' is used in the elite retail divisions of international banks to distinguish special banking services from the mass-market offerings. It refers to a personalised service which combines financial advice, investment strategy...

Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia all share a border with either Russia or, in Poland's case, with Belarus, a close ally of Russia. Following the Ukrainian revolution and the ensuing civil war in the country's East as well as the Russian annexation ...

Much of the media's attention on the migrant crisis facing the European Union has focused on southern Europe, with Greece and Italy in the spotlight as the two countries most refugees and migrants aim for on their hope-filled journeys toward the ...

Over the course of the migrant crisis that unfolded in the spring and summer of 2015 and dominated European news headlines until well into 2016, the Balkan countries of Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia saw the biggest mass ...

Europe's migrant crisis has rattled the European Union, calling into question the notion of open borders and cooperation between member countries on some of the most fundamental issues. The most concentrated influx of migrants over the two years ...

The Solomon Islands form a spectacular archipelago of islands, volcanoes and coral atolls off the eastern edges of Papua New Guinea. The islands are rich in indigenous culture and visually stunning. This Pacific idyll is now facing severe challenges...

On Alaska's remote Bering Sea coast, citizens of the United States, the world's largest economy and most powerful country, are fighting a desperate battle against the most serious environmental problem in human history: climate change. The roughly ...

Tokelau is one of the smallest and most remote nations in the world. Consisting of three coral atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 580 km north of American Samoa and covering a mere 10 square kilometres in combined surface area, it can only be...

Global warming is affecting the entire planet but the people, flora and fauna in the Pacific region are particularly vulnerable. In the southern Pacific powerful super-cyclones and 'king tides' are occurring ever more frequently. In the North, ...

Winter, or 'zima' in Russian, is a definitive season in Russia. Two thirds of the country is covered in snow and ice and winter can last from three to nine months, depending on the region. The effect on people and daily life is, in some sense, ...

Driven out of their countries by conflict and chaos, refugees from Africa continue to arrive in rickety boats on Italy's southernmost outposts such as the island of Lampedusa, a mere 130 km from the Libyan coast. Once registered by Italian ...

Small is Powerful - a project looking at the impact Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are having on economic development in various African countries. Subsaharan Africa is not an entrepreneurial desert, dominated by diminutive businesses relying ...

NEST is a Senegalese healthcare company offering comprehensive maternal and child health services. Its aim is to establish a network of healthcare facilities around the country that provide high-quality services for Senegal's middle class. Founded in...

Agrisatch is a medium sized agribusiness based in the small village of Tori northeast of the capital Cotonou. The poultry farm produces quality chicken and large quantities of eggs and has become the leading producer in the country. Its competitive ...

CDS in Mauritania is a venture which provided access to water and electricity in rural communities using renewable sources wherever possible. Founded 38 years ago, and with a staff of 25 employees, the company aims to fill the gap in energy and water...

In the semi-arid border region between Kenya and Somalia lies Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp which, with 330,000 inhabitants, is also one of Kenya's largest cities. First established in 1992 to house the tens of thousands of Somali ...

The Worldwide Human Rights Movement (FIDH) and the Guinean Organisation for the Defence of Human and Citizen Rights (OGDH) have been fighting against impunity and exposing serious human rights violations in Guinea since 2010. These include crimes ...

On 19 February 2017 Iraq's Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, announced the resumption of the offensive on the city of Mosul, which had been under ISIS control since 2014. In the preceding four months, the Iraq Army and various allied militias has ...