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Operation Female Outreach

Struggles at all levels for the women serving with the UN in Mali. Plus: on the migrant convoy, how Indonesia's new rich show off and a South Korean community in Southern India

Pascale Harter introduces correspondents' dispatches, reflections and analysis from around the world. This week:

Jennifer O'Mahony hears what it's like to serve with the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali if you're a woman. Not all the risks are waiting outside the wires surrounding MINUSMA's base in Gao.
Will Grant walks alongside the convoy of would-be migrants from Central America, currently making its way north through Mexico in the hope of reaching the USA.
Rebecca Henschke reveals how Indonesia's new rich show off their prosperity - and why it's based on a commodities boom.
And Andrew Whitehead finds an unexpected expatriate enclave in Southern India: a thriving community of South Koreans living and working in Chennai (formerly Madras), a port city reincarnated once again as a hub for pan-Asian commerce and connections.

Photograph: Senegalese peacekeepers belonging to United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) line up to greet the UN General Secretary, May 30, 2018 (SEBASTIEN RIEUSSEC/AFP/Getty Images)

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