Stories

UA-Music is a project showcasing young Ukrainian artists creating music despite the war, both in Ukraine and Poland. For them, music is a form of resistance, survival, and community-building. The project promotes Ukrainian culture, proving that in times of crisis, concrete actions can change reality.

What does someone leave behind when they leave home, and what awaits them across the border? In interactive conversations, migrants travelling through Mexico to the United States share why they left, what happened along the way, and their hopes for a safe life. Their messages and photographs reveal the personal stories behind migration statistics.

In Arizona, between Nogales and Sasabe migrants can find shelters once they cross into United States. Those places are run by various groups and non profits providing support to migrants in the state. Here is one of those camps these days called "old camp" as it was one of the first ones.

A wall cuts through cities and desert landscapes along the border between the United States and Mexico. Take a 360° journey through the borderlands: visit border crossings, migrant camps and trails where volunteers leave water. From California through Arizona to Texas, we explore places where the border shapes everyday life.

What happens when someone you love goes missing on a European border? There is still no European law that requires governments to identify the dead and notify their families. Over half the graves we found in our investigation were buried without a name. We present the stories of Europe’s border graves in three collections of 360 degree videos, taking us to border cemeteries in Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Poland.

The European Union, associated with the policy of open borders, is currently surrounded by over 2,000 kilometers of border fences.

Get up close to what one of the most man-made rivers in Europe looks like.

An estimated 1,400 girls are not born every year in Armenia due to a rooted preference for male children. The son-bias combined with a lower birth rate, has led to an alarming number of sex-selective abortions. Community activities, various laws and television shows are addressing the issue - with positive results. But is the actual problem being tackled?

Over 50,000 people have been killed and thousands of buildings have collapsed in the deadliest quakes in Turkey and Syria ever recorded. We met earthquake survivors in several Turkish and Syrian cities. For some of these people it is the second or third time that they have to rebuild their lives

29.37 kilometers – at the time of writing this report, separating Kramatorsk, the temporary capital of the Donetsk Oblast, from the front line. One third of the 220,000 inhabitants remained. In the deserted city you can see mostly soldiers. They head to the front or return from it to rest for a while. The fate of Kramatorsk and eastern Ukraine depends on the outcome of fierce fighting. Military trucks and heavy equipment rush to nearby Bakhmut every day.

A photojournalist travelled more than 8,000 kilometres in Ukraine, documenting the war with his camera. This is what he found. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sparked Europe's biggest refugee crisis since World War II. 13 million people had fled their homes in the first six months of the war. Among them, 6.7 million left Ukraine and 6.6 were internally displaced within the country, according to the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR. At least 5,600 civilians have been killed in Ukraine during that period, according to the U.N. human rights office.

What mines look like from a bird's eye view: they are often large, very extensive, impressive plants, where you can see shaft towers, lifts, shaft head buildings, other mine buildings, but also, for example, mining heaps. Although they are underground, they leave all their facilities on the surface, which is best shown from a drone flight. In this way, we recorded 71 mines: those still open, but also former mines, where shopping centers, museums, cultural centers, other monuments and even climbing centers are currently located.

In Armenia, a country of just 3 million people, where military conscription is imposed on all young men, two recent bloody conflicts have given an exorbitant percentage of war veterans among its new generation of men. Some 1,000 Armenian soldiers have been classified into various categories of disability. The invisible wound, the trauma, affects thousands of young men, no one knows exactly how many. How is Armenia healing its new generation of men?

A "One day in'' project allows you to catch glimpses of life in Krivyi Rih, Odesa, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv. Those cities are very close to the frontline and are regularly attacked. Through VR/360 video technology, we take you to a couple of locations and allow you to experience the surroundings interactively. Through this project, we want to show the daily life of people who are still trying to make a living despite attacks. The project is done in partnership with Gazeta.pl

Over a quarter million unaccompanied children arrived in Europe to seek asylum in the last ten years, according to European Commission data. Arriving in a new country without the support of a family, how did this group of young people build a new life for themselves? This is the story of one: Sam Z.

Europe aims to say goodbye to the most polluting fossil fuel - coal. However, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the shortage of natural gas and the surge in electricity consumption after lifting the pandemic restrictions, have tempted governments to return to the mine. Explore this multimedia mine and learn how European countries are quitting coal!

Over 3.5 million people were evacuated by train in Ukraine in the first 50 days of the war. 94 Ukrainian railway workers were killed, and 99 staff were injured during the evacuations. How have Ukrainian Railways helped to save thousands of lives amid war?

We work with journalists and journalists from all over the world. With the outbreak of Russia's aggression in Ukraine, we expanded our activities. We have covered the war events continuously from the very first day. We hired an eight-person team of journalists and journalists from: Chersoń, Zaporozhye, Sum, Chernihiv, Dnipro, Poltava, Mikołajewo and Odessa. Every day we put the stories and visual reports collected by them, and after processing them together, we put them in your hands. We label them with the hashtag #eyesonukraine.

In 2020, when the protests in Belarus started, the primary form of punishment for casual demonstrators was 15-day isolation in custody. The characters of that story are people who first met in a prison cell - they were to spend there next two weeks or a month after being arrested by the police in November 2020, when regime forces began to suppress protests with greater strength.

It's March 5, 2022. Russian troops have been attacking Irpin for some time, but the city has been under heavy artillery fire for several days. On that day, Russians announced the opening of a humanitarian corridor for the residents.

In Africa, some nomadic Kenyans found an alternative source of livelihood – gum arabic, which is used as a stabiliser in soft drinks.

Iranian farmers of the arid lands of Yazd province have been using subterranean tunnels for nearly three millennia. Will this ancient technique survive the impact of climate change?

Lebanon, Dubai, Turkey, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Germany... Belarus has been accused of issuing tourist visas to migrants and helping them to enter Europe. How is the complete journey of migrants arriving from the Middle East to Europe via Minsk? Which role does the Belarus government play in it? What reasons force these individuals and families, including children, to embark on such a dangerous trip?

Every year millions of second-hand cars are exported from the USA, the EU, and Japan to West Africa and non-OECD countries in general. With them, rich nations "outsource" pollution, a higher risk of accidents, and the responsibility for the safe disposal of old automobiles. Paradoxically, a buyer in a less wealthy country has to pay even a few times the car's worth in the West.

With more than 12 million tons of broken equipment yearly, Europe ranks second only behind Asia in terms of electronic waste (e-waste). Circular economy initiatives across Europe aim to reduce emissions linked to consumption.

Afghan photographer Fatimah Hossaini, who covered Afghanistan for Outriders, captured with her camera her last days in the country since the Taliban seized Kabul and she managed to flee.

On August 2020, after the presidential elections, the CEC declared Aliaksandr Lukašenka, the winner for the sixth time. It caused a wave of large-scale protests across Belarus.

Sri Lanka records the highest number of elephant deaths in the world. It became an alarming conservation concern in the island that involved 121 people and 407 elephants killed in 2019 and 318 elephants and 112 people killed in 2020 despite COVID-19 lockdown. Meet the Sri Lankans who are helping to reduce hostilities with jumbos using GPS collars, electric fences, handmade gadgets and alternative cropping.

Why was the Murcki mine called… the Murcki mine? How old is the mining industry in Poland? How long did horses work in Polish mines?

The Story of a Refugee Family who Fled the Syrian War to War-Torn Nagorno-Karabakh

The COVID-19 arrived in Brazil through the upper class but has spread like wildfire throughout the poorest communities. This is the story of the grassroots initiatives that were launched by the residents of three favelas in São Paulo to face the problems caused or exacerbated by the pandemic.

Following the Turkish offensive, in October 2019, Outriders started a diary from Rojava, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. We used WhatsApp to create a multimedia story from a conflict zone.

A visual journey through the iconic cases of biopiracy in Sri lanka. The article also explores four successful cases fighting biopiracy in India, Peru, Ethiopia and Brazil.

Three girls recount their story in the country with the highest rate of child marriages involving children under 15 years old.

Inside Kabul's cinemas, hospitals or police offices, these Afghan women from three ethnic groups and two war-torn generations recount how they achieved it, before taliban came back to power.

Inside a hospital in Zimbabwe where patients who can’t afford their bills are detained in hospitals.

In 2017, China stopped the import of waste from foreign countries. This is what happened next.

Following 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfire, we traveled to Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau territory to meet the indigenous group threatened by loggers and deforestation.

Even though it is a vaccine-preventable disease, measles kills over 100,000 people every year. Worldwide cases tripled in the first three months of 2019.

May 2019 marked the 10th anniversary of the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the government. Outriders have gone through the 26 years conflict in the paradisiacal island where the suicide belt was invented.

After Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, Putin ordered to build a bridge connecting the peninsula and Russia. Here’s a panorama of what happened next.

A review of tapes scandals in the US., Poland, Macedonia, Ukraine, Hungary, Iceland, Armenia, Greece and Peru.

A trip through the history of the natural and mineral-rich French territory in the South Pacific.

An interactive trip covering over 32 hours and 1,683 km by train from the West to the East of Ukraine.

World 2018 is a review of the most important political, economic and social events as well as sport and science achievements. We have also explored topics related to migration, environment and technology. Our summary presents meaningful facts during the last 12 months which have had a significant impact on the world around us.

450 kilometres of demarcation line in Donbas means 450 km of war, which has divided the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts into two parts since 2014.

"The Luggage" is a feature telling about cities and countries which, facing huge tourist traffic, have decided to take steps to limit and regulate the inflow of visitors. We present the ways of dealing with the negative impact of tourism on the lives of inhabitants in an interactive reportage which was made according to the principles of solution journalism.

Gorani, Slavic Muslims. It is an ethnic minority living on the border of Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia.

About 700 million people in 43 countries suffer from water scarcity today. Even big modern cities such as Barcelona and London have problems with water supply. This story is about places where the struggle for access to clean water is the cause of social unrest and an element of international conflicts.

11.2% of the world's population dies because of pollution. More than 90% inhale air of poor quality. "Deep Breath" is an interactive report on the global smog problem which many countries are unable or unwilling to deal with.

Amid conflict and political instability, the humanitarian crisis in Somalia continues.

How Iraqi Forces retook Mosul from ISIS. This is a story from the frontline.

The number of asylum seekers and migrants deciding to set off for Europe has drastically declined. Two years ago, 1,049,400 people reached the European Union. In 2016, it lowered to 374,318. How does the way of asylum seekers look like today?

World 2016 is an overview of important world events of the last twelve months – both the positive and the negative ones, but all having a strong impact on today’s reality – this close and this far. This year we also asked reporters and experts to write special summaries as an addition to this report.

In October 2015, 220,000 people reached Europe, mostly following this route. It was called the "European migrant crisis".

The world 2014 is a review of the most important events that took place worldwide in the last 12 months – both positive and negative. All of them had significant impact on the world we live in – the close and far parts of it. Check, what’s on the list.

These indigenous communities in Mexico follow the traditional system of uses and customs. Find out how they are conserving forests!

Faced by a complex intermarriage between land degradation and climate change, the Samburu of northern Kenya have to contend with rangelands that are increasingly unproductive and more frequent droughts.

Play “TESTRIS - The Positive Rate Game” by Outriders, a newsgame based on real stories. Learn about the places that effectively used testing programs to control the spread of the COVID-19 over 2020 and the obstacles people around the world weathered to be tested, such as the price or the lack of information.