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In the last week of January, a large crowd gathered at a former torture centre in the Chile's capital Santiago. The detention centre of the former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, had turned into a theatre. A group of former political prisoners in Chile performed four plays written in torture camps and in exile between 1973 and 1980.

"I think awareness of life becomes intense when you face death," said Chilean playwright scar Castro, who directed the plays.

No news is good news, goes the proverb. The people of Guinea-Bissau disagree. The nation of 1.6 million people in West Africa has gone without newspapers for almost two months because of a paper crisis. "Printing-houses don't have paper," Atizar Mendes, director of the weekly Ultima Hora, told the news agency AFP.