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World Service,17 Mar 2012,25 mins

Uganda, Sudan, Japan, Benin, Romania, Willis

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Stories from Andrew Harding in Uganda, Martin Plaut in Sudan, Julian May in Japan, Jonathan Fryer in Benin, Caroline Juler in Romania and David Willis in the USA, presented by Owen Bennett Jones. Andrew Harding recounts his experiences reporting on brutal Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and Congolese Thomas Lubanga. A brave doctor has been travelling across the border of Sudan and South Sudan to give medical assistance, reports Martin Plaut. Julian May speaks to a Japanese fisherman who sailed towards the tsunami rather than staying on land. A voodoo priest in Benin tells the fortune of Jonathan Fryer. In Romania, priests still use an ancient prayer of exorcism. Caroline Juler attends a service, packed with people. David Willis spends time with a group of ghost hunters in Los Angeles, California.

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