Weekend Edition: Deserts

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Pascale Harter introduces wit and analysis from correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. In this edition: ANDREW HARDING on the destruction of architectural and intellectual heritage in Timbuktu, Mali; CELESTE HICKS on the facelift that's changed the appearance of Chad's capital city, N'djamena; PHILIP SWEENEY on how France is remembering - or forgetting - its time and its people in Algeria; CHLOE ARNOLD speaks to a woman who was once a would-be bomber in Algeria's fight for independence; JIM CAREY wonders how Jordan manages to be so welcoming to more or less everyone; and PAULINE DAVIES visits the intensely evocative ghost towns left by miners in Chile's Atacama desert. (Image: The Djinguereber mosque of Timbuktu in 2006. Credit: Issouf Sanogoissouf Sanogo / AFP / Getty Images)