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Today we ask Confuad Baeu votes as Nicholas Maduro is re-elected as President in Venezuela.

Chinese influence is growing in Sri Lanka to a point where some people are no longer welcome in certain places. It's not for

locals. In India we meet the craftsmen still building wooden boats by hand

just as their ancestors did 400 years ago and you've heard of gentrification, but what about

Emptification? Our correspondent shares his review of Lisbon.

President Bohari of Nigeria has repeatedly claimed that Boca Haram has been defeated,

but the evidence suggests otherwise. Last month the jihadist twice attacked military bases

in the northeast of the country and sent suicide bombers to try to

infiltrate a university campus. Last year around a thousand people were killed by the group.

Their ability to blend into local communities has aided their

insurgency, so too has a poorly equipped National Army and the group's ability

to attract new members remains. Where do those new recruits come from? Colin Freeman

has a pretty good idea. It's a site all too common in northern Nigeria, a child

dressed in rags, wandering the streets with a begging bowl in hand.

Seeing these boys roam around, beseeching looks on their faces, the same question always

used to cross my mind. Why in a country rich with oil were so many

children out begging rather than studying in school? In fact here in the Muslim

North these children do attend school of a a sort. They go to the local

Madrasas or Islamic academies which offer a religious alternative to

mainstream education. They study the Quran and Islam rather than a Western curriculum, but it also means that going out to beg is part of the school timetable.

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