From Our Own Correspondent Episodes Episode guide
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Western military intervention after Afghanistan: When can it work?
Our correspondent on when military interventions have succeeded, and failed, in Africa
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Afghanistan: How did we get here?
With the Taliban back in charge, our correspondent searches his memory for clues
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On the frontline in Afghanistan, as one city after another falls to the Taliban
With soldiers in Kandahar as Taliban forces attack the city.
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Kidnappings, ethnic conflict, and Islamist insurgency: Nigeria’s violent problems
Can Nigeria be governed, with so many different sources of conflict across the country?
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Rebuilding Beirut one year after the blast: Renovation or more destruction?
The Beirut neighbourhood trying to retain its history as the city tries to rebuild
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Counting the cost: the homes and livelihoods destroyed in South Africa’s riots
A writer in Cape Town calls family and friends to hear who lost what in the recent riots
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No sign of it stopping: the spread of Covid in Bangladesh
With only a fraction of the population vaccinated, Covid is spreading across Bangladesh
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Pulling out: Western troops leave Afghanistan
A correspondent looks back on the West’s twenty year engagement in Afghanistan
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Suffering alone: the children held in a US refugee camp
Allegations of neglect and sexual abuse of child refugees in the US
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Spain: A nation divided
Spain’s Prime Minister provokes anger, by freeing leaders of Catalonia’s independence bid
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The aftermath of communal violence in Israel
People in Jaffa assesses the damage after clashes between Palestinian and Jewish Israelis
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North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un cracks down on foreign influence
The “Hermit Kingdom” leader takes draconian measures to keep the outside world at bay
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Somaliland goes to the polls
The country which broke away from Somalia holds nationwide elections
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Instability on the Myanmar-Thai border
Local villagers try to find shelter as Karen insurgents battle the military
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The battle over property in East Jerusalem
The planned eviction of Palestinians reignites deeper tensions
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Migrant boat tragedy in the Canaries
The tragedy of the migrants crossing from Africa to the Canary Islands – 56 die en route
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India’s Covid crisis
India’s government loses popularity in Covid’s second wave
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US Turkey tensions
Turkey reacts angrily to the US declaration that massacres in 1915 constituted genocide
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India’s Covid resurgence
A new wave brings India's health system close to collapse
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A dispute in the South China Sea
The Philippines launches a protest against China’s actions at the Whitsun reef
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Rwanda and the opposition
The trial of Paul Rusesabagina has shown Paul Kagame’s government in a different light
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Germany’s leadership crisis
Support for the ruling CDU is dwindling as Covid infections rise
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Poland’s rainbow families under threat
LGBT rights in Poland, Israeli elections, attacks on US Asians and Venezuela’s crisis
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New limitations for Hong Kong
The on-going clampdown in Hong Kong, plus more stories from around the world
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Fukushima Ten Years Later
How is Japan managing the cleanup after the disaster? Plus: Nigeria, Mozambique and Malta
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Crises in the Caucasus
Turmoil in both Georgia and Armenia; plus stories from Iraq, Peru and Iceland
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Afghanistan hopes - and despairs
As attacks rock Kabul, the President is defiant. Plus tales from Myanmar and Wuhan, China
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Questions of Loyalty
What does Albin Kurti want for Kosovo? Plus: Yemen's many layers of war and Cuban queues
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Egypt - Ten Years On
Mubarak's fall and the military's power. Plus tales from Bulgaria, Pakistan and India
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Myanmar: The Lady and the Generals
Will the world back Aung San Suu Kyi? Plus tales from Lebanon, Dominica and South Africa