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Isabelle Ligner
Liberia’s psychiatric wasteland for ex-child soldiers
About 50 teenagers amble hollow-eyed on the lawn of Liberia’s sole psychiatric hospital, drug-laced casualties of a civil war fought using children.
World urged not to forget food crisis
As governments pour trillions into shoring up banks, World Food Day will be marked on Thursday by calls to combat hunger and a price spiral.
DRC patients dying before drugs arrive
At an HIV/Aids treatment centre in Goma, doctor Nino Minani is still haunted by the despairing cry of a dying patient. ”’You’ll drink the ARV [antiretrovirals] yourselves,…
The misery of DRC’s child prostitutes
Even though she is just a child, 16-year-old Revoli has had to grow up fast, following her friends, neighbours and relatives into a life of prostitution. "I wanted to have money…
Fatal fire in another Paris immigrant building
Seven people were killed and three seriously injured in a fire that swept through a building housing African immigrants in central Paris, fire services and police said on…