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From Our Own Correspondent: 27/01/2011

27/01/2011

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, 27/01/2011

Alan Johnston presents stories from India, Somalia, Dubai and the United States

Despatches from correspondents around the world. This week Alan Johnston presents stories from India, Somalia, Dubai and the United States.

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

At the end of his posting in Delhi, Chris Morris looks back on his time in India and considers the country's most pressing problem - corruption. With the government under scrutiny like never before and businesses demanding greater transparency, he asks - is India ripe for reform? 

Justin Marozzi joins African Union forces on the front line in Mogadishu as they battle the insurgent Islamists, al-Shabab. He finds a city in perpetual conflict, but meets locals who are determined to live a normal life.

It's more than a year since news of Dubai's debts sent a shudder through the global financial markets. Sarah Monaghan goes back to the troubled emirate to see how things have changed.

And in Las Vegas, David Willis reports on a turf war between two rival Mafia museums.

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