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From Our Own Correspondent: 28/04/2012

28/04/2012

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, 28/04/2012

Kate Adie with colour, wit and analysis from correspondents worldwide.

Kate Adie presents despatches from correspondents in Kenya, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt and Afghanistan.

The British soldiers in Afghanistan have lost faith in their mission, there are fields full of opium poppies and the Taliban are everywhere. Quentin Sommerville talks of the mood among the troops as they prepare at last to return home.

After Charles Taylor, who'll next be taken to court to face charges relating to war crimes? Fiona Lloyd Davies has been in the Democratic Republic of Congo meeting one former rebel commander who is wanted for trial.

Ian Pannell has been talking to an English scholar in Syria whose library was destroyed as the struggle continues between protestors and the security forces.

What makes Kenyan athletes such fine distance runners? Claudia Hammond's been jogging through the Great Rift Valley learning some of the answers.

and Stephen Sackur went to Cairo to report on how the people's uprising there was faring but instead found himself captivated by a revolutionary TV chef whose recipes are being lapped up throughout the Middle East!

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