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We make one version of the programme for the BBC World Service,

but this is the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's introduced by Kate A.D.

Hello, today underneath the mango trees a cauldron of hatred in the Central African Republic.

Afghans defy threats from the Taliban turning out in their millions to vote in today's election.

Rattlesnakes, tarantulas and blazing heat, illegal migrants face the dangers of a desert trek into the United States.

And a mystery that's baffled brilliant minds for a century and more, a book no one can read in a language that doesn't exist.

So it seems it will be a few weeks yet before more peacekeeping soldiers from European Union

countries arrive in the Central African Republic.

The delay was announced earlier this week at a special meeting on the sidelines of a summit

of European and African leaders in Brussels. Eventually a thousand EU soldiers are due to be

deployed. The International Committee of the Red Cross says with killing, rape and

looting all on the increase. The situation in the

CAR is getting worse by the day. People there, according to the UN Secretary

General Ban Ki-moon, are suffering deplorable atrocities. Tim

Huel's been looking at what's caused this breakdown in law and order.

You can always tell where there used to be a village by the sudden profusion of mango trees in the middle of nowhere.

They're my favorite tree.

Their leaves so much glossier, more deeply emerald than those of any other.

Their shape at a distance distance more satisfyingly round. At this time of the year,

much of the fruit is still small, hard and green. It's difficult to imagine how by June the

ground below will be covered in a rotting yellow

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