IWPR Postcard

IWPR Postcard is a regular strand featuring colourful reportage from our editors and reporters about places they are based and have recently visited.


Day-to-day civility conceals underlying mistrust between ethnic communities in southern Kyrgyzstan. Here, the central market in Osh, June 2011. (Photo: Pavel Gromsky)
4 May 12
Lack of real reconciliation leaves Kyrgyz and Uzbek communities far apart.
The wooden Cathedral of the Ascension in Almaty was completed in 1907 and is one of the very few older buildings to have survived earthquakes and urban planning. (Photo: Ken and Nyetta/Flickr)
14 Mar 12
Kazakstan’s former capital has become a magnet for ambitious young Central Asians, attracted not just by opportunities but also by welcoming environment.
Rangers in Congo’s Virunga national park inspect the remains of a hippopotamus. (Photo: Wildlife Direct/Flickr)
28 Feb 12
“Bush meat” hunting has depleted wildlife stocks in eastern jungles.
A market in downtown Amman. (Photo: Hubert Stoffels/Flickr)
21 Feb 12
Amman mixes secular and conservative identities.
Libyan embassy London, autumn 2011. (Photo: Gordon2208/Flickr)
3 Feb 12
New diplomatic staff tasked with rebuilding relations and recovering stolen state assets. Deputy mission chief Ahmed Gebreel talks about breaking with the Gaddafi regime.
Lod’s old town, with the Church of St George and a mosque beside it. (Photo: George Nikolaus/Flickr)
13 Jan 12
Lod is economically depressed, but that has not led to ethnic strife in this unusually mixed Israeli town.
Adhamiya now – bright lights reflect the revival in this Baghdad district’s fortunes. (Photo: Saif al-Qaysi)
16 Dec 11
IWPR editor takes a walk in a neighbour where he used to fear death or kidnapping.
Melanie (centre) and to the right Marie, wearing white, green and yellow top, on assignment in Kibua. (Photo: Tom Bradley)
18 Oct 11
Radio report by IWPR Congolese trainee elicits help for thousands of civilians uprooted by fighting in eastern DRC.
Oil-sector workers in Janaozen continue their sit-in. (Photo: Artur Nigmetov)
29 Sep 11
Four months after industrial action began, tensions still run high in Janaozen.
Protesters outside the Bahrain embassy in London. (Photo: Dominic Kavakeb)
21 Sep 11
They may be few, but protesters outside Bahraini embassy say their presence is vital.