Today's quick reads
Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.
‘I will live with the scars for life’
Leprosy had been almost eliminated in Nigeria, but the disease has made a resurgence. Promise Eze reports on how patients continue to be abandoned by the government and stigmatized by society.
Open Window - Nicaragua
Pedro X Molina from Nicaragua with 'Where's that?'.
Introducing Bidhya Devi Bhandari
489 - January, 2016
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Richard Swift shines a light on the first woman president of the small mountainous state of Nepal.
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