A taste for living in a Colombian jail
Do you ever think about having dinner in jail with prisoners? In Colombia, it's possible. Since December 15, in Cartagena in the north of the country, "El restaurante Interno" receives customers every...
View ArticleSharing Kenya’s wealth with the custodians of Lake Bogoria
The Endorois people live beside Kenya’s Lake Bogoria, a few hundred kilometres north of the capital Nairobi. Their traditional way of life means that for generations they have been custodians of Lake...
View ArticleProducing leather from fish skin at Kenya's Lake Bogoria
A Kenyan research institute and the University of Nairobi have succeeded in producing special proteins that allow scientists to produce leather from waste fish. Our correspondent David John Bwakali...
View ArticleKenya's wildlife helps develop new enzymes for industry
In Kenya the textile, detergent and pharmaceutical industries aren’t as well-known as tourism or tea and coffee exports. But these three industries are being helped by local scientists who are working...
View ArticleSecurity an important campaign issue in UK elections
The United Kingdom is set for a general election this Thursday. The poll will go ahead despite Saturday's terrorist attack in central London in which sevenpeople died and many more were injured. But...
View ArticleLast day of UK election campaigning and Tories are nervous
In the United Kingdom, today is the last day of campaigning before the country votes in a general election on Thursday for its next government. When Prime Minister Theresa May called an early election,...
View ArticleWhat happens after eviction from east Jerusalem?
This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the six-day war between Israel and its neighbours: Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Israel won a clear victory. It meant the ancient part of Jerusalem, in the east,...
View ArticleWhat happens after eviction from east Jerusalem? Part 2
This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the six-day war between Israel and its neighbours: Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Israel won a clear victory. It meant the ancient part of Jerusalem, in the east,...
View ArticleSame-sex marriage in the Faroe islands
In the remote Faroe Islands the once notoriously homophobic Nordic country has taken a step forward by passing legislation that would allow same-sex marriages. Hanna Jensen is a Faroese MP and same-sex...
View ArticleIndustrial fishing off the African coast, Part 1
Coastal states in East and West Africa are host to rich fisheries, and to the hundreds of foreign fishing vessels they attract. But environmental groups and local fishermen say they sometimes find...
View ArticleUnder-reporting fish catches off Africa's coast, Part 2
In yesterday’s report on industrial fishing in African waters, we heard about countries like Kenya, trying to fight illegal fishing. But sometimes even the boats that are registered to fish, cook the...
View ArticleGreenpeace tracks down illegal fishing off African coast, Part 3
Small African countries struggle to protect the coastal waters on which local communities depend – thousands of nautical miles go unpoliced. Last month environmental campaign Greenpeace wrapped up a...
View ArticleRobots, flying taxis at Paris technology fair
Paris hosted VivaTech a major technology fair, featuring among other things, robot waiters and flying taxis this month. Dhananjay Khadilkar went along and the first thing he met was... a robot.
View ArticlePhotojournalist Reza teaches in Buenos Aires slums
His photographs are known all over the world. Franco-Iranian photojournalist Reza has covered some of the biggest historical events of the past decades, such as the Lebanese civil war and the Rwandan...
View ArticleHow Kenya's Lake Turkana is shrinking
In the north-east of Kenya, one of Africa's biggest lakes is shrinking. Lake Turkana is being described as the "Aral Sea of east Africa" after the inland a sea in central Asian that has almost...
View ArticleOne man march challenges Turkey's emergency rule
Turkey is still under emergency rule. Since last July 2016's failed coup, over 60,000 people have been detained and more than one hundred and forty thousand lost thier jobs. But that crackdown is...
View ArticleWho are Northern Ireland's DUP?
When the United Kingdom voted in a general election recently, the Conservatives of Theresa May got more seats in parliament than any other party. But they didn’t quite get a majority. So May asked a...
View ArticleBaby boom in Colombia's Farc rebel army
After Latin America’s oldest guerrilla group the Farc handed in their weapons in June, Colombia’s main rebel group are a step closer to civilian life. But peace has brought something of an unexpected...
View ArticleMuslim men accused of transporting cows for slaughter killed in India
In India, cows are protected by the constitution -- inline with many Indian religions which hold cattle tobe sacred. In some states, it is illegal to kill or eat cows, in others it’s allowed, and in...
View ArticleCostco opens first store in France
France is famous for its corner bakeries, neighborhood butchers and independently owned markets. But thirty kilometres outside of Paris, the future of this traditional style of shopping is being put to...
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