Those Days Are Gone

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Pascale Harter introduces stories of curiosity, fear and resistance from writers and reporters around the world. Yemen's civil war is overshadowed by the conflict in Syria, but on a recent visit to the Yemen-Oman border region, Elisabeth Kendall found that the fighting has fuelled a burgeoning smuggling economy as well as a passionate appetite for news. Benin City in Nigeria is a hub of the global sex traffic - and Colin Freeman heard how tales of a local goddess are used by the traffickers to intimidate their victims, victims' families and the entire community. Andy Jones has seen how The Gambia is adjusting to new government - and how it is trying to revivify its economically crucial tourist trade. And Owen Bennett Jones goes back to the USSR - or, more accurately, to Kiev, now the capital of Ukraine, part of the USSR when he last visited - during a time of full Cold War paranoia, the early 1980s - to meet a dissident. Their reunion recently provoked plenty of thoughts about awkward ideological alliances. (Photo: A fighter loyal to Yemen's exiled President checks his mobile phone near the city of Taez, August 25, 2015. Credit: Ahmad alBasha/AFP/Getty Images)