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COUNTRY PROFILE: Niger
The top tourist destination in Niger until the late 1980s, the city of Agadez – located in the dead centre of the country – is today no more than a shadow of its former self.
ESSAY: Why children work
Jeremy Seabrook visits Bangladesh to better understand the roots of child labour.
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Obama's Cuba challenge
A remarkable failure
Timor-Leste - Don’t Forget
LETTER FROM: Wealth in abundance
'Make do and mend' is a time-honoured Egyptian talent, discovers Maria Golia.
MAKING WAVES: Interview with Mike Bonanno
Mike Bonanno is a cultural activist and one half of the Yes Men. Five years ago he and sidekick Andy Bichlbaum were invited on to BBC World News pretending to represent Dow Chemicals, whose environmental legacy included the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.
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Hossam Bahgat
Mohamed Al-Daradji
Saturnina Quispe Choque
MIXED MEDIA: Three Miles North of Molkom
At a new age festival in Sweden, a group of people who’ve never met before explore tree-hugging, sweat lodges, shamanism, tantric sex.
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SOUTHERN EXPOSURE: Khaled Hasan
Khaled Hasan captures life working in Bangladesh’s brickfields.
VIEW FROM: Pardon the disturbance
In an upside-down world, there are many questions to be asked, writes Eduardo Galeano.
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From pastures brown
Remembrance of things past
Waiting in line
WORLDBEATERS: Bernie Madoff
If you’ve heard of Ponzi Schemes, it could be thanks to Bernie Madoff. About time he got his comeuppance...
BIG BAD WORLD: Big Bad World 425 - Mass suicide
Mass suicide the CO2 way in Polyp’s cartoon.
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ON THE NI SITE
The Berlin Wall of the Desert
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Stefan Simanowitz reports from Western Sahara on the wall that has separated a nation for 29 years.
Hillywood dreams
In the hills of Rwanda, Tom Cropper finds the world’s most unique film festival.
President Blair: The great escape
Anna Chen heaves a sigh of relief as Tony's plans to conquer Europe are halted.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Naked Emperors
It’s time to ask some very basic questions, like: What are banks for?
What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for
that matter, what’s the environment for? Vanessa Baird suggests a
10-point economic detox programme.
A brief history of Afghanistan
The fighting, the pain and the hunger for change
Plastic plants
As oil supplies dwindle, the plastic industry is pinning its hopes on
biomass. Not a great idea, reasons Jim Thomas.
Too late for Martha
Denied treatment while pregnant, she died in agony after her child was
born. Jens Erik Gould tells a tragic story that changed the law on
abortion in Colombia.
The banks are made of marble
The true owners of the silver in the vaults.
The fourth generation
Iran is young, vibrant and diverse, despite the repression, as Nasrin
Alavi explains.
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