FACING THE TALIBANS
- By Rina Saeed Khan
- FEATURES
In a rundown building in the mountain village of Sijban, girls sit at their desks, hair loosely covered in white or black scarves, staring raptly at their teacher. They say they want to become either doctors or teachers when they grow up.
ESCAPING BRAZIL'S DRUG GANGS
- By Ana Aranha
- FEATURES
As Marcos Lopes recounts his teenage years as the head of a drug trafficking gang involved in turf disputes in a São Paulo favela, it sounds as if he’s narrating an action movie. Gesturing wildly to give more punch to the story, he laughs at the end of each recollection.
REFRAMING AFRICA'S STORY
- By Tim Williams
- FEATURES
Close your eyes for one second and think about Somalia. Did any of the following come to mind: the largest livestock market in Africa; a robust agricultural sector; the second largest mobile phone sector in Africa; an economy supported by remittances worth over $1 billion and a business sector assisted by $350 million of investment from Turkey?
LESOTHO: DISPLACEMENT'S HUMAN COSTS
- By Olivia Bennett
- FEATURES
At the end of 1990s I made my first trip to mountainous, landlocked Lesotho, to set up a Panos London project to record interviews with people who were facing resettlement from their highland communities. The construction of a huge dam the following year would take over their valley; their homes, fields, gravestones and grazing lands would eventually be submerged by its water.
