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From Our Own Correspondent: Those Days Are Gone

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Those Days Are Gone

25/02/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Those Days Are Gone

Stories of curiosity, fear and resistance - from Yemen, the Gambia, Nigeria and Ukraine

A tense trek into Yemen; the Nigerian goddess used by sex traffickers to terrify; The Gambia's tourism, under new management; and memories of odd allies in Cold War-era Ukraine

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)

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