Burkina Faso – the country where it’s too dangerous to go to school
The headteacher says the school just outside the town of Foubé in northern Burkina Faso, which the BBC visited in March, had closed after...
Returning to Kashmir, where our parents were shot in front of us
Seventy years ago, a young British couple was shot dead at a mission hospital in Kashmir, making orphans of their three sons - one...
Yasin Abu Bakr: Leader of Western world’s only Islamist coup
Depending on who you ask in Trinidad, Yasin Abu Bakr is either a respected religious leader, a tireless community worker, or something more akin...
Ado Ibrahim @ 90: Still a humanist, royal icon for all seasons
By Sufuyan Ojeifo and Emmah Adah
“The ways of the spirit offer something that does not lend itself to be domesticated or controlled, or quantified....
Wanting to die at ‘five to midnight’ – before dementia takes over
Before It’s Too Late
It’s not unusual for Dutch patients with dementia to request euthanasia, but in the later stages of the disease they may...
