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Australia's camel cull

Camel owner and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Somali reporter Issa Abdul talks camels with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Afghan camel historian Dawood Azami.

Australia’s decision to cull wild camels has shocked many Somali-speakers, for whom camels have a huge cultural significance. We bring together ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Somali reporter and camel owner Issa Abdul and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Afghan’s Dawood Azami, who’s investigated the 19th century Afghans who came with the original camels to Australia.

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The oldest Europeans in the United States
A group of Spanish-speakers in New Mexico claim to be the oldest European community in the United States. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Luis Fajardo heard that their ancestors arrived four centuries ago as Spanish colonisers.

Nepal’s elusive snow leopards
GPS tracking collars were recently fitted to two snow leopards in Nepal’s Shey-Phoksundo National Park. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Nepali's Surendra Phuyal knows the area well, so what kind of information and data are they gathering so far?

My ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Town: Keren, Eritrea
Tesfalem Araia of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Tigrinya takes us to his home town, Eritrea's second largest city Keren.

Image: Feral camel on red earth track, Australia
Credit: Auscape Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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