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Hello, today a year into the negotiations over Britain's departure from the EU

and our correspondent feels he's studying at the University of Brexit.

We're with farmers in Kenya as they show off their latest crop, which is proving a draw for

flipper-clad tourists, it's coral farming. While in Pakistan we visit the home of a

Sufi saint who's also a political power broker. And in Amsterdam our

correspondent enjoys a prison break as part of a new project trying to help refugees find work.

Three RF Chinook helicopters will soon be on their way to the edge of the Sahara Desert,

to support French troops who are fighting a jihadist insurgency in Mali.

In the wider Sahel region, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, more than a

hundred UN peacekeepers have died since 2013, including two German and two Dutch pilots who died in separate helicopter crashes.

Last year four US soldiers were also killed when their convoy was attacked by Islamist militants.

Alistel Lithad went to investigate this new front in the fight against terror in an area which as he explains he already knew his way around.

I sometimes joke that having a geography degree means I've got an excellent

sense of direction and I'm really good at coloring in. Usually it's to poke fun at myself

after going completely the wrong way.

Last week in South Africa I drove south for half an hour before realizing the sun was setting in the wrong place

and then turned around.

But there's something else I've always loved about geography,

maps.

As a kid I remember tracing a large map of Africa,

drawing around each country's border,

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