Exiled and in despair, Osman Jama Ali had no idea of the impact an unexpected letter would have on his life. The Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia’s first government for a decade talks to Mary Lean.

How would you respond to your daughter's murder? Peter and Linda Biehl have found new meaning in life by helping to heal the wounds of the community where she was killed. They talk to Helena Kingwill.

When an English church looked for a clean-water project to support in 1983, no one knew how far it would lead, writes Ann Rignall.

Bethuel Kiplagat believes that Africa's development depends on peace and security, as he tells Michael Smith.

Five weeks in a refugee camp in Western Ethiopia shattered Fiona Leggat's stereotypes.

Caux's history made it the ideal place for a high-level symposium on reconciliation. Mary Lean reports.

Yusuf Al-Azhari spent six years in solitary confinement as a political prisoner. Now he is helping to bring Somalia's warlords together. Michael Smith tells his story: