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From Our Own Correspondent: 15/01/2011

15/01/2011

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, 15/01/2011

Alan Johnston presents stories from Sudan, Mozambique, Laos, the United States and Israel.

Despatches from correspondents around the world. This week Alan Johnston presents stories from Sudan, Mozambique, Laos, the United States and Israel.

In this week's edition of From Our Own Correspondent ...

Will Ross meets the people of rural south Sudan who have been voting in a referendum for independence and finds widespread optimism for the future.

Hamilton Wende revisits a national park in Mozambique still haunted by the ghosts of the country's civil war.

Claudia Hammond travels to Laos and sees the seeds of capitalism take root in the communist republic.

Laura Trevelyan asks why the British royal family continues to captivate a section of American society.

And Clive Lawton visits the town in Galilee at the centre of Jewish mysticism.

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