Charles

As the world hails the ex-Liberian President’s 50-year sentence for civil war atrocities, Sabrina Mahtani hopes the judgment will not detract from the root causes of the conflict.…

What would Charles Dickens, born 200 years ago this week, make of Britain’s inequality in the 21st century? wonders David Hewitt…

Sulakshana Gupta, our blogger in Sierra Leone, is back - and a lot has happened in the last year.…

A little history behind the worldwide TV drama at the San José mine in Chile.…

No-one who endured 'structural adjustment' during the 'third' world debt crisis from the 1980s onwards can have any difficulty in recognizing the emergency budget just produced by the coalition government in Britain.…

A former child soldier in Freetown refutes Charles Taylor’s testimony at The Hague.…

A new report asks whether moving Taylor from Freetown to The Hague was a mistake for the Special Court for Sierra Leone, effectively compromising people’s ownership of the justice process.…

A beautifully composed episodic study of Stan, a slaughterhouse worker, his family, friends and community.…

Pipedreams And Prophesies…