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Pascale Harter introduces dispatches from Mali, Chad, France, Algeria, Jordan and Chile.

Insight and wit from correspondents and writers around the world. Stories on Mali's rebels, Chad's capital, French and Algerian views on 50 years of independence, Jordan's welcome and Chile's Atacama.

Pascale Harter introduces wit and analysis from correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. 

In this edition: 

ANDREW HARDING on the destruction of architectural and intellectual heritage in Timbuktu, Mali;

CELESTE HICKS on the facelift that's changed the appearance of Chad's capital city, N'djamena;

PHILIP SWEENEY on how France is remembering - or forgetting - its time and its people in Algeria;

CHLOE ARNOLD speaks to a woman who was once a would-be bomber in Algeria's fight for independence;

JIM CAREY wonders how Jordan manages to be so welcoming to more or less everyone;

and PAULINE DAVIES visits the intensely evocative ghost towns left by miners in Chile's Atacama desert.

(Image: The Djinguereber mosque of Timbuktu in 2006. Credit: Issouf Sanogoissouf Sanogo / AFP / Getty Images)

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