Soldiers who return home from combat zones have veterans’ support groups, a plethora of charities and an entire government agency intended to see to their needs for illness and injuries. But contractors who take jobs in those same areas have had no such institutional support – until now. These workers face the same mental traumas
Jack Garland, BBC Venda hopes her two-year-old daughter Shaina will pull through Two-year-old Shaina is hooked up to an intravenous drip at one of the few functioning hospitals in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Her mother, Venda, desperately hopes it will alleviate the acute malnutrition the emaciated young girl is suffering from. Shaina is one of 760,000
Terrified locals have described how one of Britain’s most popular and once peaceful seaside areas has become a ‘warzone’ with some now claiming the only way to restore order is to arm the police with guns. Gang warfare between local youths and those travelling down from London has been blamed for an ‘explosion’ in violence