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But now with the addition broadcasts on Radio 4, here's Kate Aide.

Today how poverty, bad leadership and corruption are helping the militants find new recruits

in Northern Nigeria.

Why Italy is working for a new relationship with Libya after the death of Colonel Gaddafi. A train journey

through southern Africa offers glorious scenery but also a close-up of poverty and

hardship and we take shelter from the cold in Vienna in the cafe where Leon Trotsky was a regular.

An Air Force barracks, a police station and an army checkpoint are among the latest targets attacked by gunman in the northeast of Nigeria.

Police there say the insurgent group known as Boko Haram is responsible for this week's violence in which at least six people lost their lives. The militants

say they're fighting to impose Sharia law in this country of 160 million, roughly

split between Christians and Muslims. They've been blamed for dozens of bombings and

shootings in the northern semi-desert regions of Nigeria. And Andrew Harding tells

us the insurgents now enjoy considerable support among sections of the population

dissatisfied with their rulers. It's pitch dark and we're driving down an empty

Nigerian motorway at high speed. The motorway is brand new and judging from all the swerving we're doing, not quite finished.

I start imagining a half-built bridge emerging from the gloom.

Instead, abruptly, there's a big intersection on the outskirts of the capital of

Boucher. No traffic lights, no clear right-of-way, but lots of approaching

headlights, our driver, Kandy, Grunts, and accelerates.

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