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Wednesday May 23, 2012
May 24 and May 27, 2012: from Florence - Uganda - The Seychelles - Iraq
From our correspondents around the world...
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Tour participants in Florence eat gelato topped with aged balsamic vinegar, a uniquely Italian treat. (Photo: Luigi Fraboni) |
In Uganda you can inherit a wife, marry more than one, and beating them isn't much of a crime. And changing that is proving problematic.
Then, a young award-winning reporter on shoe leather, social media and his first time in a free-fire zone.
And, Florentine steak, well-aged parmeggiano, and an egg-rich gelato to die for. How to find the best food in Florence.
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Wednesday May 16, 2012
May 17 & 20, 2012: from Zimbabwe - Kyiv, Ukraine - Beijing
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A member of the Ukrainian women's rights group FEMEN attacks the UEFA Cup in Kiev. FEMEN says the Euro 2012 soccer tournament markets Ukraine's women to sex tourists. (Photo: Reuters/ GlebGaranich) |
In Ukraine, a political protest that takes its top off. Half-naked women take to the streets saying it's their way of struggling for gender equality.
And from the vaults, Visions Of Joanna: the story of a picture that sent a man in China on a twelve-year quest.
And, we'll re-visit The Tree of Forgetfulness as author Alexandra Fuller recounts her memoir of family madness and colonialism in Africa.
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Categories: Africa, Europe, Past Episodes
Thursday April 19, 2012
Peace without justice in Liberia
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Comfort Tokpah, 50, lost her husband and brother in Liberia's civil war and was forced to marry a child soldier. (Photo: Bonnie Allen) |
Peace without justice in Liberia
Charles Taylor, a former President of Liberia, faces 11 counts for crimes he allegedly committed in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
They include murder and rape, and recruiting child soldiers
Remarkably enough, neither he -- nor anyone else -- faces any charges for triggering a war in his own country, which killed 1/4 million Liberians.
And now compels the innocent to live side-by-side with people guilty of committing atrocities against them. Dispatches contributor Bonnie Allen tells us two of those stories.
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The President's appointed him an Ambassador-at-large in the Foreign Ministry. Observers say it likely means his prospects for prosecution are even more distant. But on the upside, it means Moses won't have to look at him every day.
The April 12 Dispatches program
Categories: Africa, Promo Box
Wednesday April 11, 2012
April 12 & April 15, 2012 - from Libya - Ganta, Liberia - Montreal - Paris
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A man points to the place where a bomb exploded. The target was a UN convoy in Benghazi, Libya. The attack reinforces concerns about instability in Libya, since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. (Photo: REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori) |
If a neighbour killed your kin and went unpunished, you'd have an idea what it's like in Liberia, where victims of war crimes live in peace without justice.
And from the archives, we strut with The Society of Revellers and Elegant People. Of course they're French. French-African.
Then, as cholera makes a comback in Haiti, a Canadian author tells why it's poised to become the quintessential disease of our time.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes
Wednesday April 4, 2012
April 5 and April 8, 2012 - from Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Kiev, Ukraine - Prato, Italy - Ganta, Liberia - Tel Aviv, Israel
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Haiti's President Michel Martelly (c) leaving a news conference in March, held to dispel rumours that he holds dual US-Haitian nationality. (Photo REUTERS/Swoan Parker) |
Greeks and Turks make nice. Together! A cautious change in a troubled relationship.
And from the vaults, a story of Italian factories powered by Chinese labour. Business turns a profit, but both cultures take a loss.
Then, something few in Israel want to talk about. How the state uses, and abuses, its Arab informers.
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Friday March 30, 2012
Cape Town "car guards" offer "protection"
A few weeks ago, Anders Kelto told us about car guards in Cape Town
Listen to The Car Guard Song - Derick Watts & The Sunday Blues (Eminem feat. Rihanna Parody)
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Lionel is a "Beach Buddy" in Muizenberg, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. They're licensed versions of the ubiquitous "car guards", who demand payment to watch over parked cars and (sometimes) guard against theft. (Photo: Anders Kelto) |
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Categories: Africa, News Promo, Promo Box, The View from Here
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- Thu., 19 – Peace without justice in Liberia
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- Fri., 24 – Kennedy's very bad day in South Sudan
- Thu., 23 – Young Senegalese "fed up" with regime
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