Country profile

Contradictions and extremes on an island country ‘invented by colonization’.

Filed in: Mauritius

Maria Golia considers Egypt’s past, present and future.

Filed in: Egypt

Peru is said to be booming but the poor would never know it. Stephanie Boyd reports.

Filed in: Economics Peru

Zoe Leigh Smith reports on the tiny Caribbean island’s strangling debt burden.

Filed in: Grenada Poverty

Black pearls, cruise ships and lively politics: Mary Warren gives the lowdown on the South Pacific atolls.

Filed in: Cook Islands

The country’s unequal wealth distribution and rapid population growth have made it one of the poorest in Latin America, writes Anna-Claire Bevan.

Filed in: Democracy Guatemala Human Rights Poverty

Mary Namakando digs out facts and ratings on one of Southern Africa’s most politically stable countries and probes President Sata’s grapple with corruption.

Filed in: Democracy Economics Politics Wealth Zambia

Nick Megoran revisits one of the poorest of the former Soviet republics and finds that instability, corruption and ethnic tensions remain.

Filed in: Kyrgyzstan

A small group of islands with a long history

Filed in: Equality Papua New Guinea

A profile of one of the world’s most frequently colonized and loosely assembled nation-states.

Hadani Ditmars finds a battered and divided country where young people strive for a progressive future.

Filed in: Iraq