Dispatches
with Rick MacInnes-Rae
Wednesday February 8, 2012
February 9 & 12: from Cairo - Kazakhstan - Turkey - India - New York
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CBC Correspondent Derek Stoffel talks with a group of Syrian refugees living at a camp at the Turkey/Syria border. (Photo: CBC) |
Egyptians may be divided over military rule but the army's not going anywhere soon. We'll hear why its influence is too deep to deny.
In Kazahkstan, nobody grows very old in the villages near a former nuclear test site now being considered for commercial farming.
CBC News enters the Syrian refugee camps in Turkey, where exiles exist on a diet of defiance and division.
In India, cheap handmade cigarettes may have health risks but they're going global anyway.
And, the life of Brian: how a guy from Brooklyn found his muse in the music of Africa.
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Categories: Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes
Thursday February 2, 2012
February 2 & 5: from Sri Lanka - Palau - Ethiopia - Bahrain - Pakistan - Colombia
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Tombs in Puerto Berrio, Colombia hold the remains of unidentified people adopted by local townspeople. Photo/Nadja Drost |
The stateless of the South Pacific. Why six inmates freed from Guantanamo are now marooned halfway round the world.
Jazz night in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia is comfortable with some western influences but dissent isn't one of them.
How Sri Lanka's headlong rush to development is pitting resorts against its people.
Making a deal with the nameless dead. Why Colombians adopt the victims of violence floating down its largest river.
And, the Pakistani journalist who revealed corruption in his craft only to become a victim of his own success.
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Thursday January 26, 2012
Jan 26 & 29: from Port au Prince, Haiti - Kingston, Jamaica - Butare, Rwanda - Nicaragua - Bas Me Limbe, Haiti
From our correspondents around the world...
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Mobile phones became lifelines for people in the weeks following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and they would charge them at charging stations like this one in Port-au-Prince. The Red Cross' TERA text-messaging service,developed in the aftermath of the quake. (Photo/ REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) |
From the Haitian earthquake rises new thinking about technology that will save lives around the world.
A political paradox in Jamaica. The country's about to celebrate independence though most voters say it's failed them.
Something is killing the cane-cutters of central America: a mysterious new kind of kidney disease found nowhere else.
And from the archives; spying on free speech. How Rwanda tries to suppress the legacy of genocide.
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Wednesday January 18, 2012
Jan 19 & 22: from Damascus - Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo - Kandahar - Ghana - Lombardi, Italy - Nigeria
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Bashar and father Hafez stare down on the entrance to the prison in Damascus where protesters have been jailed to scare them into silence. Photo/Margaret Evans |
Hear why the struggle for Syria has become "an equality of weakness" in our correspondent's dispatch from Damascus.
Putting the bore in Borneo. Tidal bore that is. A phenomenal view of a natural phenomenon.
Why was Canada in Kandahar? A new study says we didn't ask enough tough questions before embarking on an "ill-starred" mission.
If Ghana is democracy's beacon in Africa, it sometimes shines with faint light according to the filmmaker who's documented its presidential election.
And from the vaults: the fitful search to learn why Italian soccer players are coming down with Lou Gherig's Disease?
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