Amid the coronavirus pandemic, medical services around the world are increasingly under pressure. Hospitals have become hotspots, and the health sector has focused its attention on fighting the outbreak. In countries such as Paraguay, this has mostly broken health systems that were already straining to deliver adequate medical services to all of its citizens. As […]
Africa’s Army of Trees
The government and aid agencies weren’t consulting the village chiefs. That’s what three of the Fulani tribal chiefs said, anyway, when I met them in a remote corner of the Senegalese Sahel to discuss the progress of the Great Green Wall tree-planting project by which a band of vegetation is meant to be spread across […]
Climate action in Haiti: a blog
Jenny Barker travelled to Haiti, and the island of Ile-a-Vache, to explore the various ways in which the local community is engaging in sustainable solutions to climate change. Here, she reflects on her trip. Haiti, which means ‘land of the mountains’, is a beautiful country. Looking out of the window throughout the scenic journey down […]
Exploring Timor-Leste 20 years on: a blog
Darragh Peter Murphy travelled to Timor-Leste, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the country’s independence referendum, to explore how peace has brought economic growth, yet political instability remains, and the oil and gas reserves are running out. Here, he reflects on his trip. It’s nearing 4pm and a day’s work in the mountainous highlands in […]
Nicaragua under siege: a blog
Michael McCaughan travelled to Nicaragua, to explore issues of governance, human rights and accountability under the Ortega administration. Here, he reflects on his trip. In more than two decades spent writing and living in Latin America, stories have evolved over hours, days, weeks, months and even years. In Belize, the issue of bananas and worker […]
Deadline extended for Simon Cumbers Media Fund winter round
The closing date for applications to the winter round of the Simon Cumbers Media Fund has been extended to Wednesday, 6th November 2019 at 5pm. Journalists and photographers who are interested in travelling to a developing country to report for an Irish media outlet on the realities of contemporary life there are invited to submit […]
