Marauding Baboons
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
'No wonder everyone is looting now. The elites here have been doing it for years,' our correspondent Andrew Harding is told in the troubled Central African Republic.' As Brazil awaits further demonstrations against a proposed ten per cent hike in public transport costs, Wyre Davies takes a cameraman to hospital who was fatally injured in clashes between protestors and police. Gabriel Gatehouse in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa talks about atheism and jazz with a man who warns him that an army of Allah will rise up out of the desert. Mariko Oi, herself a reporter from Japan, talks about the difficulties of making a programme about the often troubled relations between her country and China. And Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, may be best known these days for its American military base, but Frank Gardner gets away from that and learns a little more about life, and the baboons, in the country's tranquil Rift Valley.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. It's the latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent, broadcast on Radio 4, |
| 0:06.8 | and it's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello, today long lunches and revenge killings as more French peacekeepers head for the Central African Republic. |
| 0:17.0 | Two worlds collide as an Islamist and an atheist exchanged views on a humid evening in Mombasa. |
| 0:24.0 | Awkward questions for two correspondence, |
| 0:27.0 | one from Japan, the other from China, as they report on their country's |
| 0:30.7 | fractious relationship. |
| 0:32.0 | And there's only one winner as the women |
| 0:35.2 | take on marauding baboons in Djibouti's otherwise tranquil rift valley. |
| 0:41.6 | President Francois Hollande has announced that France will send another 400 troops to the Central African Republic. |
| 0:47.0 | There are already 1,600 French soldiers in a country beset by violence between Christians and Muslims since a coup in March last year. |
| 0:56.0 | A spokesman for the Alizei Palace called on the UN Security Council to create a UN peacekeeping force which could be deployed in this former French |
| 1:04.8 | colony. |
| 1:05.8 | Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Muslims in the Central African Republic have been trying to flee |
| 1:11.0 | revenge attacks by Christian militiamen. Andrew Harding in the capital |
| 1:15.7 | Bongi tells us not all of them have made it. It's late afternoon on the edge of Bongi. The |
| 1:21.8 | knives are coming out and the drugs are kicking in. |
| 1:24.8 | Taire Alley is fondling his machete and wondering in a rambling sort of way if he'll make it out |
| 1:30.0 | of here alive. This is a Muslim neighborhood, one of the very last ones left in an |
| 1:34.8 | angry shattered city. To reach it we've had to walk past a group of |
| 1:38.7 | increasingly tense French peacekeepers bracing themselves for another night of trouble and through a no-man's |
| 1:44.4 | land of burned out buildings. Tyre and his young family are waiting for a truck, any truck, |
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