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Owen Bennett Jones introduces stories of protest and property from around the world.

Kate Clark was the 麻豆约拍 correspondent in Afghanistan during the last years of Taliban rule: she reflects on how Kabul has changed over two decades, as they took control of the city, then were driven out, and continue their war across the country right up to today.

In Ethiopia, the government recently declared a State of Emergency - apparently responding to growing protests and public unrest rooted in the Oromo movement; James Jeffrey traces the causes of this conflict and tries to read the mood in Addis Ababa.

During the apartheid era, South Africa's universities were hotbeds of student radicalism, and many former student leaders ended up in today's ANC government. But as Milton Nkosi's seen for himself, the teargas and rubber bullets are still being fired on campus in the post-apartheid era - these days at radical protesters disgusted with corruption and demanding free education for all.

And while Antonia Quirke revels in the lush surroundings and intriguing stories of Tulum, a former fishing village turned laid-back luxury holiday retreat on Mexico's Riviera Maya, she also uncovers a history of disputes over land.

Photo: An Afghan woman with her son begs in the midst of a traffic jam in Kabul. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)