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Hello. Today, the man who's travelled 5,000 miles to Ukraine to fight in someone else's war.

The Beobabs are still there, so are the Limos.

But the tourists are staying away and for Madagascar the outlook is bleak.

Columbia's writers gather amid tropical colours and architectural gems.

2015 they say is a make or break year for their country and cooler box full of drinks tick

camping chairs in place tick we're all set for a night of car park pimping in

Botswana the Ukrainian presidents today expected to order government forces to start removing

heavy weapons from their positions in the east of the country.

The pro-Russian separatists they've been fighting against say they've already started to pull

back their weapons as part of an agreement brokered earlier this month.

Yesterday Kyiv said none of its soldiers had been killed in the east of the country in the previous 24 hours.

A spokesman described it as the first day without fatalities in several weeks.

Paul Adams says the seasons changing in eastern Ukraine.

Whether or not the ceasefire will take a firm hold is less clear.

It's almost spring in the Don Bass. The ice fishermen are still out on the frozen lakes,

but the surfaces are slushy now, and out in the fields the snow has melted.

The freezing fog of winter is giving way to a strong bright sun that carries with it the promise of rebirth and in the trees woodpeckers are drumming.

It's been a long hard season of war and even though the latest ceasefire has reduced the

fighting no one thinks it's over. I was last here in the immediate

aftermath of another ceasefire, but that one broke down soon afterwards. The front lines have changed

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