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World Service,04 Feb 2012,25 mins

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Owen Bennett Jones with the pick of FOOC's personal stories, insight and analysis from correspondents around the world. In this edition: Allan Little ponders the original sins of the Eurozone; Mary Harper visits an Ethiopian town at the centre of the global qat trade; Matthew Teller discovers how Libyan medical tourism is filling the hospitals, hotels and coffers of Amman in Jordan; Mark Doyle traces the roots of Nigeria's recent political protest and insurgent attacks; David Willey explores the millennia-long relationship between Italy and Libya; and Hugh Schofield reveals why - despite his being a Paris resident and a hardcore Francophile - there are moments when France gives him a serious case of dyspepsia.

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