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 ...
Gaza has been under Israeli blockade since Hamas took control in June 2007. During this time, much needed construction materials have been prevented from entering the strip, leading to the closure of all of Gaza's concrete and block factories. In...
Yangambi Research Station is the former Belgian headquarters for all major ecological, biological and agricultural research in Africa between the 1930s and 1960. It stretches for 33 km inland from the Congo river and contains 250 residential houses ...
Over half the world's refugees now live in large towns and cities where they are confronted by a unique set of challenges. The traditional image of life in tented, sprawling camps no longer tells the full refugee story. As urbanisation reshapes much ...
Lebanon is teetering on the brink. As the civil war continues unabated in Syria, its smaller neighbour is increasingly being sucked into the chaos raging next door. Long subordinate to Damascus, the tiny nation of some 4 million people is as tense ...
Syria's troubled capital, Damascus, has been under siege from opposition forces since 2012. Almost everyday the sound of artillery fire echoes from the suburbs as government troops pound rebel lines, lines which during July 2012 crossed briefly into the ...
Violent ethnic clashes between the indigenous Uighur and Han Chinese populations rocked the north-western Chinese city of Urumqi in July 2009. At least 197 people were killed and 1,721 injured in what one Chinese official called the 'deadliest riot since...
The war in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001 and has already lasted longer than both World Wars. With the security situation remaining critical and the country's fledgling democracy tarnished by corruption, future prospects look far from rosy. Adam...
Wounded soldiers lie prone on the battlefield, but they are not scattered across it as one might expect. They are in a neat line, each facing in the same direction and spaced out at regular intervals. Their injuries follow a pattern too. The first ...
The 7th of November 2010 saw the first 'democratic' election in Burma since 1990. Many had hoped that this would be an historic opportunity for the long suffering Burmese people to put an end to the junta's military dictatorship and herald a new era ...
On November 13th 2010, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in Rangoon. Suu Kyi, whose name translates as 'A Bright Collection of Strange Victories', had spent almost 15 of the last 21 years under house arrest. ...
On the 7th of June 2010, the day Afghanistan overtook Vietnam to become the longest war in US history, ten NATO soldiers including seven Americans were killed. One of those was 21-year-old US Army Soldier Brendan Neenan. Pilots and medics from ...
North Korea is the world's last and only hereditary communist dictatorships and has been in the news spotlight for all the wrong reasons over the past decades. It is believed to have torpedoed a South Korean naval vessel in March 2010, killing 46 ...
They may not conform to the western stereotype of a provocative girl band but Myanmar's first all girl pop act, the Me N Ma Girls are certainly pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable in deeply religious and conservative Burmese society. The ...
Ordos City, which derives its name from the Mongolian word for 'palaces', is a gleaming, extravagant urban development on the dusty plains of Inner Mongolia some 570 km from Beijing. It is the very epitome of the image China is trying to project to ...
The winds of change have swept through Burma in the past year as President Thein Sein and his government have introduced reforms that have transformed the mood of the country and caused a geopolitical shift in the region and beyond. The ...
The conflict in Syria continues to drag on and the battle for Aleppo, Syria's commercial capital and second city, has so far failed to create the tipping point that the rebels had hoped would be a precursor to their assault on Damascus. The Assad ...
Burma's Buddhist monks have long stood for non violent resistance to the country's now retired military junta and were at the forefront of a number of protest movements that chipped away at the regime's legitimacy. Since the easing of stringent ...
In a year of extreme weather, the Typhoon that hit the east coast of the Philippines on 7 November 2013 still surprised meteorologists with its sheer ferocity and speed. Typhoon Haiyan, or Yolanda as it was known in the Philippines, was the strongest...
The state of Jharkhand is home to one of the largest Adivasi (tribal) populations in India. It is also the location of an estimated 40% of the country's deposits of coal, iron ore, uranium and other minerals considered essential for India's industrial ...
Rajasthan, one of the poorest and least developed states in India, has the second lowest literacy rate for women in the country, at 44%, and a deeply entrenched caste system. But with the help of non-governmental organisations, women are leading a rural ...
Berlin has stood at the vortex of world history several times in the past century, from the rise and fall of Nazism to the post-war division of Europe into East and West, to the end of the Cold War and the collapse of Communism. November 9, 1989 would ...
Photographer Robert Wallis and writer Jennifer Wallace have criss-crossed the 'swing state' of Florida on the eve of the U.S. presidential elections. With its large number of electoral college votes and an almost even split between Democratic and ...
In the West mud is seen as dirt yet in rural west Africa it is the most common of building materials. It has been used for hundreds of years to build sensational structures - houses, mosques, palaces, temples, entire communities - which are repaired and ...