Near Mosul's war-ravaged historic heart, Maher Al-Nejmawi watches a worker repainting his long-abandoned stall. Residents of Iraq's second city are trying to put their lives back together after...
In a formerly rebel-held district of Syria's Aleppo, factory owner Karam allows himself a small smile as he watches his machines back in action, churning out plastic goods. Six months after Syria's...
What was once Bentiu, the gateway to South Sudan's oil fields, is now a cluster of bullet-riddled buildings and piles of scrap metal, its ghostly avenues abandoned. Residents of the town have long...
Superheroes are coming to the rescue of Thailand's temples, where monks have commissioned giant statues of comic book icons and toy robots to entertain children while parents donate to their coffers....
It's only when the thick smog of humidity and pollution lifts that the size of Lagos becomes clear: from above, the megacity of some 20 million people seems to stretch out to infinity. Not even the...
The Kufuor administration sold Ghana’s railway lines to Indians as scrap metal, former Minister of Trade and Industry Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has said. According to him, that practice affected Ghana’s...
Three World War II shipwrecks off the coast of Malaysia -- the final resting place of dozens of seamen -- have almost disappeared, local divers say, with the finger pointing at possible scrap metal...
Fire yesterday swept through the Sikkens Scrap Line, near Agbogbloshie in Accra, razing down some shops and destroying valuables running into thousands of Ghana cedis. It took the swift response of...
The victims of last Saturday’s disaster at Sentuo Ghana Limited, a steel manufacturing company in Tema, were conveyed to the Tema General Hospital in a tipper truck, after they had been left...
In the heart of Accra lies Agbobloshie, a sprawling scrapyard once tagged as one of most toxic places on earth. A former wetland, Agbobloshie has become a dumpsite for electronic waste products from...
He was always laughing about his White Man at Church, a German with long nose and sharp eyes observing all steps and words of his to learn from him eagerly to come out, over time, better than him in...
