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Orangutan, elephants, and dams

Indonesian Rainforest; Hair in Myanmar, My ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½town Masvingo; Ukraine's Comedian President; India's highest polling station. With Zuhura Yunus.

Indonesia's Leuser rainforest in Sumatra is a unique ecosystem where elephants, orangutan, tigers and rhinos still live together. But this biodiverse forest is now threatened by development, as ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Indonesia's Mehulika Sitepu found out.

A hairstyle for every age
In a small village in Myanmar children and young women have hairstyles for every stage of life. Yee Yee Aung of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Burmese explains this ancient tradition.

My ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½town Masvingo
Memories of new schools, stone age monuments, and shared drinks on the bridge with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa's Stanley Kwenda from his hometown of Masvingo, Zimbabwe.

Ukraine's Comedian President
Ukraine’s new president is the comedian Volodimyr Zelensky. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Mundo’s Arturo Wallace and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa’s Jonathan Paye-Layleh advice ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Ukrainian’s Syatoslav Khomenko on what to expect from a celebrity president, based on their experiences reporting on former comedian now President Jimmy Morales in Guatemala, and former footballing star President George Weah in Liberia.

Voting in the Himalayas
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ India's intrepid reporter Aamir Peerzada heads high into the Indian Himalayas with Indian election officials in search of elusive nomadic voters.

Photo: A baby orangutan peeks out from behind a leaf
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