A profile of Africa’s smallest and most densely populated country.
Wandering around a market in The Gambia, among piles of broken toilet seats, fake designer gear, horns and shea butter, Dawn Starin finds fascinating people off the tourist trail.
Dawn Starin hopes that one day the women of the Gambia will escape the horror of female genital mutilation.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara is appalled by the tactics used by a website to raise money for poor Indian children. But do the ends justify the means?
‘I was the fall guy’: Julian Assange in his own words
With capital punishment debates resurfacing since the Breivik trial, Tony Mckenna argues the death penalty brutalizes not just the individual but the whole society.
In some Indian communities a girl's first period is treated with great fanfare, in others it is a carefully kept secret, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
Alan Hughes can’t believe the nerve of the London Mayor, who’s trying to dupe people into cleaning up the capital ahead of the Olympics.