Tuberculosis remains a serious threat to public health in Kyrgyzstan, and the country's prisons are a primary breeding ground for the disease. The incidence of TB in Kyrgyz jails is about 25 times higher than in the general population, and the rate ...

Though the subject matter is somewhat out of his usual realm of experience, William Daniels thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of finding an innovative approach to the unfamiliar world of "haute couture" As he remembers about his week with some of ...

From 11 until 15 April 2011, William Daniels' striking photographic study of the scourge of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in countries across Africa and Asia, will be exhibited in a central location in the middle of the European Parliament in ...

The uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's 40-year rule which started in February 2011 in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi has pulled the entire country into all-out civil war. The violence between rebel forces and those loyal to Gaddafi's teetering ...

When news started to filter through that rebel forces were poised to enter the capital Tripoli, William Daniels felt compelled to make his way back to Libya where he had covered the fighting and the humanitarian crisis earlier in the year. Once back ...

What has become known as the Occupy movement in the English-speaking world, or Indignados and Indignés in Spain and France respectively, is a loose network of separate protests or protest movements in over 80 countries that broadly question ...

In 1982, the Syrian city of Hama rose up against the autocratic regime of Hafez al Assad, the current Syrian president's father, and became a symbol of the brutal length to which Syria's rulers were prepared to go to remain in power. At the time, ...

The Central African Republic (CAR) has seen more than its fair share of coups and unrest over the five and a half decades since its independence from France. The current crisis, however, triggered by yet another coup d'etat, is starting to pit a well...

The Central African Republic (CAR) has seen more than its fair share of coups and unrest over the five and a half decades since its independence from France. The current crisis, however, triggered by yet another coup d'etat, has turned into an ...

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, ...