Return of the African Gendarme
Kate Adie presents Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ foreign correspondents' reports from around the world. Has France once again decided to be the gendarme of Africa?
Correspondents' news and views from around the globe:
Hugh Schofield is in Paris as French troops take on Islamist rebels in the former French colony of Mali; Will Grant on how Venezuelans are starting to consider a future without their president, Hugo Chavez; Emily Buchanan on the Indian holy man who wowed the ladies in New England; Jo Fidgen on how the Sami people of northern Sweden haven't quite forgotten their traditionally nomadic ways and James Luckhurst takes shelter from the cold and finds a welcome in one of the most unusual museums in the Baltic states.
Producer: Tony Grant.
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- Thu 17 Jan 2013 11:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4