If you want to buy rugs or jewellery, go to Chicken Street. But if you want to buy a chicken, you’re better off on Flower Street.
Bread is freshly baked, every day, and is then hung from hooks in glass windows of small bakeries. If you get it early enough, this bread crusty on the outside and chewy on the inside – perfect for sopping up soups and stews
Walls are stained, marking the level of water that ran through Culvert and forced community members to take refuge on their rooftops
This is what happens to a home in the line of a landslide. It gets cut open, like a doll’s house. Furniture remains, water-soaked; and large pieces of rubble serve as reminders that, once, walls seemed to protect families in Dwazark
The city’s largest “disposal” site, where people mine for nails and paper clips… anything they can sell. Sometimes, a hill will cave in and people will be buried alive in garbage
Don’t ask Aminata about her challenges. “What can’t you do with one arm?” She will assure you, “I can do anything!”
Over 80 percent of registered voters participated in Sierra Leone’s 2018 Presidential and Parliamentary elections
In Siem Reap, I encountered people who prayed for help, more often than they asked for it
Voters’ fingers were dipped in ink, indicating that they had cast their ballots
In Cambodia, orphans are often taken in by monasteries. I was advised not to touch or hug a very young boy who had lost his mother because, as a dimension of his religious service, he must not be touched by a woman
A tradition that is hundreds of years old, Muay Thai is known as the “science of 8 limbs” – fists, elbows, knees and feet. It is practiced by children as young as about 8 years
Five times the size of Manhattan, Angkor receives about 2 million visitors per year.
About three hours into the process, skin is smeared with ink and blood
