Richard Assheton

Street Child has helped almost 8,000 children in a Nigerian town blighted by jihadists — providing trauma counselling and training for work

Manon Fleury has dismantled her country’s traditional kitchen hierarchy with a team of women and is leading a movement to expose sexist abuse in the industry

Africa’s most populous country is electrifying and baffling by equal measure— bursting with talent but also crippling poverty, our former Lagos correspondent writes

Michelin chefs say bad bouillabaisse is sullying the reputation of Marseilles, where the dish dates to the ancient Greeks. Can they outcook the tourist traps?

Three nights in Ibiza with two dozen boys and girls in separate villas — what could possibly go wrong?

Four million tourists visited the island last year but many of its 160,000 permanent residents cannot afford to rent or buy. Even a ruin went on sale for €2.1m

After President Ghazouani ended decades of turbulence, Mauritania has found natural gas and he’s extracting his price

A report into France’s €200m property portfolio in the Italian capital shows the tourist spot was built with French money in the 1720s — provoking a diplomatic row

To rid the French city of its scourge of 1.5 million rodents, modern-day rat-catchers are employing the Roman method

For centuries people have relied on family folklore and chemist expertise to pick the right variety.