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Javier Milei's first year in power

Argentina's president Javier Milei famously campaigned with a chainsaw, promising he would cut public spending. Has he delivered?

Argentina's president Javier Milei famously campaigned with a chainsaw, promising he would cut public spending. Has he delivered? VerΓ³nica Smink of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Mundo will bring us the latest from Buenos Aires. Plus, how thousands of old portrait pictures were found and restored in Uganda, with Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Africa's Christine Otieno, and the unlikely friendship between a Senegalese man and a baby owl, with Alassane Dia from Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Afrique.

Produced by Alice Gioia and Hannah Dean.

(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich.)

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