Burundi, a small, poor, land-locked nation in the heart of Central Africa, descended into chaos in April 2015, after incumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza launched his bid for a third-term—something the opposition claim is anti-constitutional. Street protests were violently suppressed and since a failed coup in May, a string of grenade attacks and assassinations have gripped the capital.

Bolivia recently became the first—and only—country in the world to legalise child labour for children as young as ten, contravening international regulations in an attempt to find a local solution to a global phenomenon. The children in this story are amongst the 850,000 Bolivian child workers who are trying to reconcile their families' immediate economic needs and their own ambitions. Spurred on by success stories of former child workers who have enrolled themselves in university and started their own businesses, they are the heralds of a country striving to show the world an alternative path to development.

The capital of the Central African Republic is used to be home to more than 130,000 Muslims, integrated with the rest of the population. Since the outbreak of sectarian violence, the rest having fled amid a veritable pogrom.

A rebel group incorporated into the national army returned to insurrection in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in April 2012. The rebellion lasted only 19 months, but wreaked terror across the region, killing hundreds and displacing hundreds of thousands.

It took a little over two years after the birth of the world's newest state for it to slip back into a bitter conflict which has ravaged the country, displacing over 2 million people and killing tens of thousands.

After 19 months fighting the Congolese government, M23 announced the end of their rebellion in November 2013. A military success for the government heralded in a new wave of optimism for eastern Congo, but the spectre of their dark past remains.

Aleppo, Syria's largest city and the economic heart of the country, has history going back millennia, lying at the end of the Silk Road; it is one of the worlds oldest continually inhabited cities. But the Syrian revolution has brought death and destruction to its inhabitants since early 2012.

Tunisia and Egypt were wracked with protests, their leaders eventually stepping down, but Libya's moment to overthrow their dictator, descended into conflict.

Farmers in Somalia say that they have not had rain for nearly two years. The whole region has been hit by a drought, the like of which has not been seen for 60 years. Four regions in Somalia have been declared as in a state famine. Thousands have fled their homes—and their decimated livelihoods—in Somalia, either seeking refuge in population centres such as Mogadishu, or crossing the border to Kenya and Ethiopia.

Fear loomed in the air during the run-up to Kenya's 2013 elections, fearing a replay of the violence that shocked the country—and the world—following the 2007 elections. But in 2013, the campaign for peace was successful.

Amidst claims of fraud and irregularities, the Democratic Republic of Congo held its second multi-party elections since 1960 on November 28, 2011. Images from Lubumbashi around the election period.

Senegal's presidential run-off on March 25, 2012, was a model of democracy in Africa, despite protests criticising incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade of running for what his opponents deemed an "un-constitutional" third term.

The people of the Nuba mountains, long time victims of discrimination from Sudan's government, have been subjected to a campaign of aerial bombardment since June 2011 after fighting broke out between Khartoum and Nuba rebels.

The birth of the world's 193rd country. In January 2011, southern Sudanese voted in a referendum for secession from Khartoum. On July 9th, their wish was granted, drawing a line under years of civil war.

Generations of hill-sheep farmers have shaped the landscape of North Wales, one that is enjoyed by millions of tourists every year. As the UK approaches Brexit, the future shape of this farming is in question.

Warlords, foreign governments, armed factions and militia have fought over Somalia for nearly 20 years, and Mogadishu has been the stage for many of these battles. As a new era emerges out of the combats, investment and stabilisation contribute to a changing face of the city.

Guinea Bissau: A small west-African nation that appears on the news agenda mainly for its regular coups and its strong links to the trans-Atlantic drug trade.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by conflict in eastern Congo, sporadic fighting forcing them to pack up their homes and make their homes elsewhere. Sometimes temporarily, often for years.

The greed for ivory is decimating Africa's elephant populations, with thousands of African elephants dying every year at the hands of poachers. Whilst some get caught, corruption means that many others get away, leaving carcasses to litter the national parks and conservancies.

Somali piracy has been in decline for the past few years; hijackings of ships in 2012 was only 11% of those taken by pirates four years previously. This is in part thanks to projects run by the Somali government and development agencies to encourage fishing as an alternative to piracy.

Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of Somalia, has avoided some of the worst battles of Somalia's two-decade long civil war, but populations here are still precarious. Many people live as traditional pastoralists, migrating with their livestock across the often arid countryside. Their animals are their savings, and drought or disease can ruin them.

"If there is a family in Sudan that does not have at least one Sufi member, it is not Sudanese" goes a popular saying in the country.

Africa has only around 400 wolves left, the Abyssinian Wolf, who live in the highlands of Ethiopia.

Rebels in Libya | They are fathers, brothers, sons. Engineers, teachers, bankers, students. But most had never picked up a gun before.