As medical teams work to fight the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, local media organisations and activists are waging a second war against rumours that sow doubt about the ...

They allow their men to bear arms and openly admits they have taken the side of the ethnic rebel groups who are fighting the government.What The Free Burma Rangers -and their founder, a former US ...

Each month, our journalists go meet an Observer to take a closer look at events they have witnessed. Advertising The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 1,500 ...

The Observers is a collaborative project that includes both a website and a weekly TV show, all based on amateur content. Advertising Derek Thomson went to meet artisanal gold miners in Cameroon who ...

Just like every year, the FRANCE 24 Observers covered the news through amateur images. Our team wrote more than 500 articles this year, with the help of citizen journalists around the world who filmed ...

Above, the picture on the left-hand side shows how Bénénice Bejo was really dressed when she stood beside producer Asghar Farhadi for the NBR Awards in New York. On the right, her blouse has been ...

Nearly 11,000 people were evacuated from their homes Sunday in Colorado, where firefighters are battling some of the worst wildfires in a decade. About twenty houses and a thousand acres went up in ...

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A 50-page guide distributed to migrant workers in Saint Petersburg has ruffled quite a few feathers among Russian human rights activists. While the text appears well-meaning – offering advice on legal ...

We have selected what we think are the most striking amateur videos published on The Observers in 2010. Take a look and vote for your favourite. Which amateur video published on The Observers in 2010 ...

Over the last few days, Turkish political opponents have been organising "light protests" from their homes to protest the arrest of two teachers who are now imprisoned after being fired from their ...