Country profile
Facts, figures and more
Eritrea
The country, once one of Italy’s few colonial possessions, covers an 800-kilometre strip along Africa’s Red Sea coast, stretching from Sudan in the north to Djibouti in the south.
St Lucia
St Lucia’s stunning beauty, capped by the famous twin peaks of the Pitons, hides a turbulent history.
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.
Qatar
Nowhere near as religious as its neighbour, Saudi Arabia, nor as bling-obsessed as nearby United Arab Emirates, Qatar has astutely observed the paths other Gulf states have chosen, and then cherry-picked what seems to work best.
Trinidad & Tobago
Facts, figures and statistics of Trinidad & Tobago
South Korea
Malaysia
Visitors to Kuala Lumpur could be forgiven for thinking that they have landed in a highly developed nation. But hidden from the casual visitors’ view are the urban slums, crammed high-rise lowincome housing, rural villages still in poverty.
Belarus
A country at the edge of Europe home to wolves, bears, lynx and Europe's last dictator.
St Kitts and Nevis
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Turkey’s unstoppable dam
After failing to court Chinese investors, Turkey is set to self-finance a controversial billion-dollar dam project, reports Crystal Luxmore.
We mean business!
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The witness
Human rights activist Ewa Jasiewicz reflects on her time in Gaza, where she saw – and reported on – unimaginable horrors and incredible heroism.
Haiti: disaster relief or disaster capitalism?
Richard Swift reports from the Caribbean.
Does Haiti exist?
The devastated island has the full attention of the media for now – but, wonders Leonardo Padura Fuentes, how long will it be before the world turns its back?
This magic green bracelet
Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandsons supporting the reformers? Demonstrations in the holy city of Qom? This is a new generation of resistance, as Nasrin Alavi shows in her latest survey of the Iranian blogosphere.
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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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