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Hello. Today the people voted for independence.

The national government says it won't happen.

Not Catalonia and

Iraq.

How will the standoff be resolved?

We're in Charleston, USA, amid streets lined with palm trees, elegant architecture and persistent reminders of its role in the slave

trade. In Nepal we visit a vulture restaurant where the birds eat and the people pay to watch and bringing up baby.

After almost two decades our correspondent in France has become a dad again.

A lot has changed during that time.

Mental health services are under pressure in this country

and there are plans for much-needed resources and more personnel.

Having shaken off the grim history of bedlam and demonic possession,

mental health is still sometimes seen as secondary to physical health. In Zanzibar, they too are experiencing rising demand. The East African

Island has limited resources with few psychiatric wards, little access to

modern drugs and very few mental health workers.

Not surprisingly, as Nicola Kelly has found, people are embracing any other kind of solution.

I was seeing things. I was seeing evil spirits,

Ashura tells me, eyes wide behind her broad-rimmed spectacles. It felt like an

electric shock, very, very scary. Outside the cramped

damp hall hordes of teenage girls gaze skyward as a menacing rumble of thunder rolls in.

Raindrops tumble through dancing palm trees soaking their school bags.

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