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World Service,02 Mar 2020,53 mins

Why Islamist insurgency is surging in the Sahel

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We try to find out why the Sahel region in Africa has become the epicentre of one of the world’s fastest growing Islamist insurgency. Israel goes to the polls for the third time in less than a year. And an aid worker in Western Mozambique describes life in Manica one year after the devastation brought by Cyclone Idai.

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