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From Our Own Correspondent

Incompetence and Conspiracy

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How was Boko Haram able to kidnap more than one hundred school girls in Dapchi, Nigeria? Kate Adie introduces stories and analysis from correspondents around the world:

A failure of the security services, conflicting official accounts, and misinformation - Stephanie Hegarty examines the similarities between Boko Haram’s 2014 attack in Chibok and the kidnapping in Dapchi last month. In Bolivia, Laurence Blair visits the multi-million-pound museum celebrating the country’s President and asks how much longer can Evo Morales can stay in power? In Greece, Sally Howard meets the anarchists who now see helping migrants, rather than spray-painting buildings or throwing Molotov cocktails at cops, as the best way to further their cause. In Afghanistan, Auliya Atrafi reveals how repeated foreign interventions have only made his fellow Afghans more inventive in their conspiracy theories. From judges to generals everyone seems to accept that foreign powers are to blame for almost everything. And in the US, Graeme Fife takes a tour of George Washington’s estate and the gardens that were never far from the mind or the heart of the country’s first president.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:04.0

Hello. Today we're in a hotel in Athens that's been turned into a squat, an anarchist refugee squat to be exact and home to some of the many migrants trapped in Greece.

0:16.5

In Bolivia we visit a multi-million pound museum celebrating the country's president, located

0:22.4

in a tiny and poor village few outsiders ever visit.

0:26.8

And another presidential tour in the US and George Washington's estate to see what he learned from the British. While in Afghanistan it's the

0:35.8

British who are to blame for almost everything. Them and the Americans and the

0:40.1

Pakistani Intelligence Agency were in the weird world of conspiracy theories.

0:47.0

Yesterday, after more than a month in captivity, most of the 110 Nigerian school girls kidnapped by Boca

0:54.4

Haram were returned. Details of the release are still emerging. The

0:59.7

government deny anything given to the militants, but it's not clear how their freedom was

1:04.3

negotiated. At least one girl who refused to renounce her Christian faith is said

1:10.1

still to be in the hands of the Islamist insurgents. Ever since the

1:14.7

attack on the school in February, it's been a struggle for journalists and for the

1:19.0

parents to sort fact from misinformation and official denials, says Stephanie Hegity.

1:25.0

Aside from the soft chirping of birds, in the wide trees that shade its empty classrooms,

1:32.0

the grounds of DAPchi Girls Government School are eerily

1:35.8

quiet. The only signs of life are a few old goats roaming through the classrooms. Their

1:42.2

bleets echo around the concrete walls instead of the gaggle of 900 schoolgirls.

1:48.0

The scene is almost identical to another empty school I visited in Northern Nigeria, in Chibok,

1:55.0

another tiny town made famous

1:57.0

by something terrible.

2:00.0

Thirteen-year-old Fatima was in her dormitory getting ready for evening prayers with her friends when the militants came.

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