The white-tiled floor of Togo's largest trauma unit is awash with the blood of motorcycle riders. The patients' limbs are fractured, their scalps gashed and feet grotesquely twisted. Every day is the same, a relentless production line of injury which the...
In Cape Town, South Africa, atiny biotech startup is taking on Big Pharma as it looks to create an mRNA Covid-19 vaccine and share the technology with the world for free. If the plan succeeds, it could radically alter the entireglobal system of vaccine ...
'GAYROPA' is a word often used by Russian authorities to refer to Europe. It is meant to signify both Russia's lack of acceptance of LGBT+ people and to distinguish between the values of East and West, particularly when it comes to the rights of sexual ...
Sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad has become a geopolitical headache for both western and Russian politicians following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Until 1945 the city was known by its ...
The history of indigenous populations in Brazil is a history of struggle and resistance. When the first Europeans arrived in the 16th century, the indigenous population in Amazonia numbered 3 million people. Over the past five centuries, these indigenous...
Launched in 2012 by The Mediae Company, Shamba Shape Up is East Africas most watched and longest running agricultural TV series, broadcasted in both English and Swahili on Kenyan, Ugandan, Zambian and Tanzanian national TV as well as streamed on social ...
In Brazil there are still 1 million people who are not connected to the electricity grid. For them, the federal government has launched the 'Mais Luz para a Amazonia' (More Light for the Amazon), a program that seeks to provide electric power to ...
Under the cover of darkness on the night of March 27, 2017, housing activists snuck past the guards of two government-owned buildings in central Cape Town - a derelict hospital and an abandoned nursing home - and took up residence inside. The activists, ...
In May 2022, Dutch forensics expert Andro Vos launched the Wildlife Crime Forensics Academy, a first-of-its-kind institution that seeks to equip rangers and other environmental law enforcement officers with the skills needed to collect the vital forensic...
I have been working as a photojournalist in Colombia for over 15 years. In 2010, I documented the brutal civil war that pitched government forces, paramilitaries, revolutionaries and crime syndicates against one another for more than half a century. Over...
Jakarta is sinking, struggling to keep the sea from invading the streets and neighbourhoods. Forty percent of the city is technically below sea level and decades of pumping groundwater out to sea on a massive scale have made the subsidence worse. Some...
The caves surrounding the village of Gbentu in northern Sierra Leone are held sacred in local culture. Kings have been laid to rest here, and tributes stowed within the crevasses. On this occasion, however, it is a dozen or so Sierra Leonean scientists ...
'On my last trip to Ukraine, I spent several weeks along the eastern front, crisscrossing the areas 'de-occupied' by the Ukrainian counter-offensive and reporting on the consequences of the Russian invasion and the on-going war. While much of the ...
In 2015 the United Nations declared access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy as one of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) with an ambition for this to be achieved by 2030. Energy access is widely recognised as one of the ...
By the second half of this century, Africa is projected to be the global epicentre of observant Christianity, with two fifth of all Christians expected to be living in sub-Saharan Africa. Within the Christian communion it is Pentecostal Evangelicals and ...
War is a man's game; at least that's how it would appear, looking at armies around the world where only a handful of countries oblige their women to serve. In the majority of armed forces, men make up the vast majority of service personnel. Israel has ...