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From Our Own Correspondent: Syria and Ghana

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11/12/2012

Syria and Ghana

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Syria and Ghana

Rural roots and urban divides in Damascus by Jeremy Bowen.

Pascale Harter with dispatches from Jeremy Bowen, exploring the social and political divides of today's Damascus, and Emilie Filou, on Ghana's new tourists: Ghanaians themselves!

Jeremy Bowen explores the long-festering social divides in Syria which are beginning to manifest themselves even in Damascus, its timeworn capital city; Emilie Filou meets the travellers revivifying Ghana's tourism industry - young Ghanaians themselves.

(Image: Damascus street scene, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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