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12 June 2013 - 9:57am“Quite a few of the most beautiful homes in Bukavu are built on the sweat of children working in the mines,” says a child protection officer who works in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He can rattle off the names of dozens of artisanal mines that surround South Kivu’s. He... -
28 May 2013 - 9:31amThe Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan’s far north is known for its beauty, its mountains and its isolation. It is home to five of the 14 mountains in the world that reach higher than 8,000 metres. Its first road link to the rest of the country was only established in 1978, and access can still be... -
13 May 2013 - 2:32pmIn the village of Yathriba, in Central Darfur, a group of men and women are building a bridge across a small, muddy stream. They work methodically, slowly putting stones into place, conserving their energy under the hot Sudanese sun. During the rainy season this small stream can easily flood and cut... -
6 May 2013 - 3:06pmThe home made of twigs and branches, cardboard boxes and plastic sheeting did not stand a chance against the heavy rain and winds. When their roof and walls were ripped away, 73-year-old Isack Dahir Hilowle and his eleven family members feared for their lives. “We huddled together, one on top of... -
23 April 2013 - 1:12pmAfter bombs fell in the fields outside their village in Sudan’s Blue Nile State, Mary and her family decided to leave. Mercifully no one was killed in the strike, but more than two years of constant fighting meant that she, like so many others, no longer felt safe. Five days later, after trekking...
