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Today we return to Genoa, where a motorway bridge collapsed this summer and more than 40 people

were killed, and we hear what impact the tragedy

has had on the Italian city. There's a meeting in the Democratic Republic of Congo

with a Nobel Prize-winning doctor and local hero.

While in Belgrade we visit the newly refurbished National Museum of Serbia

to find out why it took 15 years to reopen.

And from India, an epitaph to empire, chanced upon in a cemetery in Chennai.

Mali in West Africa is one of the largest countries on the continent and one of the world's poorest.

The UN describes the humanitarian situation there as grave, precarious, dire and volatile, with terrorism and organised crime to blame.

On Saturday, militants armed with rocket launchers, machine guns and other explosives killed two UN peacekeepers and injured several others in one attack,

while an improvised explosive device wounded another four.

Groups aligned to both Al-Qaeda and Islamic State are said to be expanding there.

Jennifer O'Mani recently travelled to the east of the country to meet some of the women trying to bring stability to the region, as well as fighting for

equality themselves.

Superintendent Catherine UGorgi is settling in for another 24-hour shift, monitoring UN patrols in the troubled Malian city of Gao, this formidable

Nigerian police woman cracks jokes with colleagues from Burkina Faso and Tunisia in

fluent French, scanning her computer screen for the evening's planned routes.

Superintendent UGorgi is a highly unusual presence on the sprawling UN base here,

where the prefabricated buildings, mess hall and football field are all full of men.

It doesn't seem to bother her much. I like action. Whatever they say a man does, I like doing it,

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