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Radio 4,25 Nov 2017,30 mins

A New Leader Rises

From Our Own Correspondent

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Political change in Zimbabwe and the new African reality; Kate Adie introduces correspondent's stories from around the world. Fergal Keane recalls the Cold War era conflicts he once reported on in Africa and reflects on what Robert Mugabe's downfall reveals about how things have changed since then. Lebanon has long been a nation of news addicts and Richard Hall finds that the ongoing political upheaval is keeping people glued to their screens. Linda Pressly explores how a passion for horse breeding is uniting people in the West Bank. In Portugal, Margaret Bradley finds that the seasonal migration of livestock from valley to mountain has been replaced by a new transhumance of hungry tourists. And Andrew Whitehead explores the complex history of Kashmir's Tibetans.

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