Two decades on, Sierra Leone still scarred by civil war
Between 1991 and 2002, the small West African nation of Sierra Leone was ravaged by a decade of war, which left between 50,000 and 200,000 people dead...
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We return to places which have been in the news - often a long time ago, sometimes recently - to see how local people are rebuilding their lives. Sunday at 9.10 pm. Or you can catch it online from Friday.
A long road to peace: Pakistan's tribal areas
As the Taliban once again take control of Afghanistan, we take you to a place where their members have often found refuge. Located on the Afghan borde...
A fragile Great Green Wall for Africa
The Great Green Wall was officially launched by the African Union in 2007. It aims to fight desertification by creating a huge strip of vegetation acr...
One year after deadly blast, Beirut struggles with ‘trauma after trauma’
Huge twin blasts in the port of Beirut on August 4, 2020 left more than 200 people dead and 6,000 injured. The source of the disaster was 2,700 tonnes...
Indian state of Goa continues to attract dreamers from around the world
India's small western state of Goa is probably one of its most widely visited tourist spots, with 7 million visitors in 2019 alone. But few people kno...
Polluted by the oil industry: Life in Nigeria's Ogoniland
The Ogoniland area of southern Nigeria is one of the most polluted places on Earth. The crops are burnt to a cinder, ash and tar smother the land and ...
South Korea's Sewol ferry disaster, a tragedy that traumatised a generation
On April 16, 2014, the MV Sewol ferry capsized near the southwestern shores of South Korea, with 476 passengers on board, including 325 pupils on a sc...
Covid-19 in Europe: Codogno, the Italian town where it all began
The name of Codogno may not sound familiar, but the town in the northern Italian region of Lombardy was the epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak in Euro...
Sixty years on, Algerian desert region still struggles with effects of French nuclear tests
In February 1960, France carried out its first nuclear test in the Algerian desert, codenamed "Blue Jerboa". Three more atmospheric tests and 13 under...
Syria: Searching for Idlib’s lost ones
When the Syrian uprising began in 2011, few would have guessed that it would become one of the bloodiest conflicts of our time. Ten years on, our repo...