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Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories from around the world.

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From Our Own Correspondent: 09/04/2011

09/04/2011

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Despatches from Ivory Coast, Afghanistan, the United States, Australia and Romania.

Kate Adie introduces despatches from Ivory Coast, Afghanistan, the United States, Australia and Romania.

Today our correspondent takes a drive through the country which was once one of Africa's success stories -- today the journey reveals Ivory Coast, after months of conflict, is a devastated, fearful place. There's an initiative underway in Afghanistan to improve the lot of women about to give birth. At the moment many are dying in childbirth and many children perish within the first weeks of life. Our reporter's at a clinic near Kabul hearing what they plan to do. And we hear about efforts to help the mighty, but threatened, sturgeon in the River Danube. There are some fishy tales to tell ...

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