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Business Browser Every issue we review businesses, products and meet people behind key organisations across our network ORGANISATION TO KNOW If you want to lower your carbon footprint, check out Mercy Corp’s new online initiative. The site allows you to calculate your carbon emissions and offset them by investing in […]

Business Browser


Airline News Find out about our new partnership with BMI, plus news on our long-haul departures and microfinance loans in DRC New codeshare brings UK connections to nine EDINBURGH Passengers flying to and from the UK will be spoiled for choice from this month onwards with connections to and from Brussels […]

Airline News


What to Listen: Our Picks Emerald Book Channel A relaxing musical journey in time and harmonyUn voyage relaxant au cœur du temps et de l’harmonie Jan Garbarek Raga ECMTrisan May Yo I Real WorldNusrat Fateh Ali Khan Tracery Real WorldKhalil Chahine Mektoub Part 2 TransatKhalil Chahine Mektoub Part 3 TransatRabih Abou-Khalil Window ECMEgberto Gismonti Ciranda Nordestina ECMGustav Malher Adagietto D.G.D Bortnyansky I’ve Cried To The Lord MelodiyaPaul Winter Grand […]

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La fièvre de la jungle La région de Virunga abrite une richesse incomparable de biodiversité, avec 414 espèces endémiques qui peuplent des écosystèmes variés, depuis les montagnes et les forêts jusqu’aux steppes et aux marécages des plaines. En marge des frontières du Rwanda, de l’Ouganda et de la République Démocratique […]

Jungle fever


What’s on: Dates for your diary, hotel and museum news, Gola Forest update and Uganda’s rising tennis champ. NEW OPENINGS Sandele Bay Eco-Retreat, Kartong Village, Western Division, The Gambia Catering for the discerning eco-traveller, the sumptuous Sandele Eco-Retreat is already garnering rave reviews from all who stay there. Easily accessed […]

African browser


A Talk on the Wild Side WWF is credited with running one of Africa’s most successful conservation initiatives. Tamsin Taylor caught up with Taye Teferi, one of the key players behind the program, to talk about why Africa’s wildlife needs global attention When we meet in WWF’s Nairobi headquarters, Dr […]

A talk on the wild side



Born Free Whether it’s viewing the Big Five* on safari or trekking after mountain gorillas in Rwanda, Angela Robson asks industry experts if Africa’s indigenous animals are really wild anymore? “My view of the cheetah was quickly obscured by a large, khaki-clad backside. Most of the safari hunters on board […]

Born Free


Belgium’s water features From boating to white-water kayaking to hydrotherapy, Lucy Mallows looks at three of the best water-based trips in Belgium The fancy facades of merchants’ houses are reflected in the canal along Bruges’ Spiegelrei. These days, little more than a trickle of Brussels’ River Senne flows through the […]

Belgium’s water features


Belgian browser Our pick of restaurants, hotels and the best events from cities across Belgium. BED DOWN Hotel Café Pacific57 Rue Antoine Dansaert, BrusselsSituated on Brussels’ most fashionable street, this boutique hotel is just minutes from the port. The bedrooms have all been beautifully designed with contemporary furnishings and quirky […]

Belgian Browser



H2O hysteria From Christian Lacroix-designed bottles and specialist water bars to towns that have built their identity around bottled waters, Tom Moggach takes a look at Europe’s love affair with water Next time it rains, stop and think. Every brand of bottled water starts with rain, yet the story of […]

H2O hysteria