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From Our Own Correspondent

28 Jan, 2012

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

From our own curmudgeon. Hugh Schofield finds reasons to be dyspeptic in Paris. Jeremy Paxman on why he says: let's hear it for the Chinese Communist party. Mary Harper visits the Ethiopian town at the centre of the world qat trade. Mark Doyle investigates the link between corruption and crisis in Nigeria while Gabriel Gatehouse explains how the job of uniting the divided factions in the new Libya becomes harder by the day.

Transcript

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You're listening to a download from the BBC. This is from our own correspondent.

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sign up to our Twitter feed as well. But now with the addition broadcast on

0:18.7

radio four here's Kate Aide. Today a nasty smell in the air as the problems facing the new rulers in Libya begin to pile

0:27.0

up.

0:28.0

We explore the links between corruption and crisis in the Milton Keynes of Nigeria.

0:33.0

Visit the Ethiopian town, said to be the world capital of Khat.

0:38.0

That's the narcotic leaf, not the furry family pet.

0:41.0

And why one correspondence saying, let's hear it for the Chinese Communist

0:46.2

Party? Well another admits when it comes to France, he just can't help being commudgeonly. The United Nations is urging the transitional

0:55.7

government in Libya to take control of makeshift prisons around the country to prevent

1:00.8

further atrocities against detainees.

1:03.0

Its chief spokesman on human rights spoke of 8,000 prisoners being held in 60 different locations

1:10.0

and detailed cases of rape, torture and extrajudicial execution.

1:15.0

Earlier the charity Meds Saint-Frantier

1:18.0

suspended operations in detention centres in the city of Misrata

1:22.0

because of what it says are persistent cases of torture.

1:26.0

Gabriel Gatehouse says the job of unifying this divided country now seems harder than ever.

1:32.0

Three months after he was captured and killed,

1:35.0

a strong smell of death still lingers on the spot

1:38.0

where Muamma Gaddafi spent his final hours

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