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From Our Own Correspondent: Kenya and Algeria

12/10/2012

Kenya and Algeria

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Kenya and Algeria

Gabriel Gatehouse on Kenya's high-tech future; Chloe Arnold on Algeria's contradictions.

Pascale Harter presents personal stories from around the world. Gabriel Gatehouse takes a look at the bright high-tech future in Kenya; while Chloe Arnold says Algeria is a country of contradictions.

Pascale Harter presents two reports from Africa in today's programme: one from Kenya and the other from Algeria.


A revolutionary plan for the future of a continent? 

Gabriel Gatehouse meets a man in Kenya with a scheme aimed at moving economies towards financial independence and away from reliance on aid.



Chloe Arnold bids farewell to Algeria and looks back at her time in a country full of contradictions, mired in a violent history but a place desperate to leave the past behind.

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