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Brave enough for peace?

Israeli voters' craving for security; the gold miners poisoning Peru's Amazon with mercury; Yemeni music in Kuwait and a 'climate of fear' hanging over a dam project in Tanzania

Pascale Harter introduces personal reflections, reportage and analysis from reporters and writers around the world.

During the Israeli elections, Yolande Knell talked to a range of voters about what they want from a Prime Minister - and reflects on how little either leading candidate's campaign talked about the peace process or any long-term solution to the Israel-Palestine question.

Laurence Blair goes into the Peruvian jungle to reveal how illegal gold miners have poisoned earth, water, and neighbouring indigenous communities with the use of mercury - and what Peru's government is doing to stop them.

Sumaya Bakhsh explains why Kuwaitis are so moved by the music and culture of Yemen.

And Aaron Akinyemi runs into a wall of silence in Tanzania. Trying to report on the controversy over a huge new hydropower project, he couldn't avoid a sense of being watched by state security, and many an interviewee backed out under government pressure. Has President John Magufuli's hands-on style of governance gone too far?

PHOTO: A man standing near posters of Israeli Prime Minister, Chairman of the Likud Party, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerusalem, Israel, 08 April 2019.

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