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Today you're ill, you need care, but you're in Yemen,

and to get decent treatment can mean leaving the country not easy with a civil war raging.

Better news from Madagascar where moms are tackling old taboos

to rectify a life-crippling condition.

Do you have a family member glued to the computer screen

and playing games as well?

You despair.

Well, in Germany, we hear they earn a small fortune and have legions of fans. And never mind the

filthy air in Ulan Batore, it doesn't stop thousands of people abandoning life on the grassy

steps and moving to Mongolia's capital.

Mosel in northern Iraq was where Abu al-Baggdadi, the self-declared caliph of Islamic State announced the creation of the so-called

Caliphate in 2014. It soon became a city under siege as Iraqi and coalition

forces closed in on the militants and left in ruins when the

extremists were finally driven out and liberation was announced in 2017.

But as well as being a city of conflict, Mosel is also a city of art and culture, says Shaima Kaleel.

There were a number of words I'd expected to hear when I asked people about life after

IS in Mose Mosul. Freedom, safety, relief.

But another word keeps coming up too, usually from women.

Color. I see life in color now, Raffal, a student at Musil University tells me.

When the so-called Islamic State took control here, they changed the aesthetic of the city. Women were forced to dress in black, head to toe. Men had to grow beards. Art in any form was banned.

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