Rebuilding lives in DR Congo

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Max Pearson introduces stories from DR Congo, Ecuador, Guatemala and Malaysia. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in the DR Congo. Amid the violence, a clinic in Goma is helping civilian casualties recover and rehabilitate. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham met some of the people trying to rebuild their lives. Ecuador goes to the polls this weekend, in a vote which is seen by many as a referendum on President Daniel Noboa's hardline war on the country's criminal gangs, which critics say has led to innocent people arrested and detained. Ione Wells reports from the city of Guayaquil. Many of Guatemala's indigenous communities live outside the major cities, and the stress of living isolated lives has fuelled mental health problems. A group of indigenous women is trying to change that - Jane Chambers went to Lake Atitlan to meet them. The Malaysian state of Sabah, in northern Borneo is a mountainous region covered in dense rainforest. On a recent visit there, Stephen Moss came across the increasingly rare black hornbill – and a new generation of keen birdwatchers. (Image: Naomi at the Shirika La Umoja centre in Goma. Taken by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham)