Thousands of miles from any major civilisation and with temperatures as high as 50℃, two armies are prepared to resume a war. On one side there are over 100,000 heavily armed Moroccan conscripts, drafted from coastal cities and temperate mountain valleys, waiting behind a huge fortified rubble wall. This wall runs for nearly 2,500 km, is [...]

A tragic story that never ends. The war in DR Congo is the most deadly conflict to have taken place anywhere on earth since World War II. Bewildering in its complexity, the war officially came to an end in 2003. And yet the killing goes on. At the beginning of 2008, as a ceasefire was [...]

CARE International is the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) main partner in providing food and water to Somali refugees living in Kenya’s northern province. People have been living in this desolate and arid region for over 15 years, in a network of refugee camps managed by UNHCR. Hagadera, Ifo, and Dagahale Camps house [...]

In an increasingly globalised world, indigenous peoples like the famous Masais (Maasai) tribes of Kenya and Tanzania are facing radical changes in their traditions and lifestyle. Traditionally the Masais are a nomadic people, moving around on the savannah to graze their goats and cattle. The Kenyan government has tried to persuade them away from their [...]