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Alan Dein returns for a new series of global encounters with strangers and old friends via the internet. In this edition Alan meets Emma from Arua, Northern Uganda. She is a deputy head teacher in an all- boys secondary school. She reflects on the recent horrific terrorist attacks on a Ugandan school. Tragically, this is nothing new. Mass graves are situated in front of her current school, victims of a rebel attack years ago. And he links up with Sandeep in Goa, a retired career civil servant with years of experience working in the Indian railway Sandeep talks about the experience of dealing with a rail crash early in his working life. He connects with Father Major, a young Ugandan Catholic missionary working in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Father Major travels regularly travels to remote communities in rebel-held territories on his motorbike. And Alan catches up with Mursalina, a student originally from Kabul, Afghanistan. She fled the country two months after the Taliban returned to power in 2021. Her parents and extended family remain in Kabul, and Mursalina talks about how she copes with life without them by her side, and how she keeps going living in Kyrgystan, a country far from home. She has no idea when she will see her family again. Producer: Mohini Patel