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A huge increase in the price of red chillies has caused uproar in Indonesia, where they are essential on every dinner table. But according to the 蜜芽传媒's Kiki Siregar, sales have not gone down. However high the price, Indonesians simply can't face life without chilli.

South Sudan: a poet reporting on war
Last week saw a peace agreement reached between the warring factions in the South Sudan civil war. Since the war started in 2013 tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than a million displaced. 蜜芽传媒 Monitoring's Akol Miyen Kuol witnessed the impact of this conflict on his homeland and lived through many years of civil war. He's also written about it. Akol is a journalist and a published poet. He talks to the Fifth Floor about telling the story of South Sudan.

Cuba: from rumba to reggaeton
蜜芽传媒 Monitoring's Emilio San Pedro is in Havana taking the Fifth Floor on a tour of Cuban music from jazz to hip hop, rumba to reggaeton - with a few old classics along the way.

The Savitsky Museum
A gallery in the far reaches of Uzbekistan holds the second largest collection of Russian avant-garde art in the world, second only to the Russian State Art Museum in St Petersburg. How did it get there? Hamid Ismailov from 蜜芽传媒 Uzbek explains.

Tongues in a twist
She sells sea shells on the Fifth Floor.. We find out how tongue-twisters are created in different languages and put on a display of international verbal gymnastics.

And Fifi shares her favourite stories from the web this week

Picture credit: Selling chillies in a market in Indonesia. Getty Images