蜜芽传媒

Insight, wit and analysis from 蜜芽传媒 correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. In this edition, Pascale Harter presents despatches from two of the world's most notoriously violent places.

"After the revolution, everyone will have their own agenda"
Yemen is being dragged further into violence and uncertainty by a spate of bombings and shootings which Al Qaeda says it carried out. And the country's experience is proving a salutary lesson that political change isn't everything. People power did oust a dictator here. There have been elections.

Portia Walker was in the capital, Sana'a, during the mass protests last year. And she argues the current instability is not what Yemenis imagined when they demonstrated for regime change.

Local hero - in a town full of villains
The town of Corleone in Sicily is soaked in mafia associations. Perhaps even saturated with them, after its depiction in the "Godfather" series of books and films. But it was and is home to some good guys, too. Alan Johnston tells the story of the gangsters and heroes - real and imagined - who have emerged from this one small town to become the stuff of legend.