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Outlook: Afghanistan's First Female Mayor

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05/03/2013

Afghanistan's First Female Mayor

BBC World Service - Outlook, Afghanistan's First Female Mayor

Azra Jafari, the Afghan woman mayor who would be president.

Azra Jafari tells Jo Fidgen about her challenging job as mayor of the Afghan town of Nili, a dangerous two day journey from her family home in Kabul.

Azra Jafari, who became Afghanistan's first woman mayor four years ago, tells us that despite the challenges of her job, she aspires to become the first woman president of her country.

Also, Gela Charkviani gives us an insider's view of the death of Joseph Stalin 60 years ago. Gela's father Kandid had been hand-picked by Stalin to head the Communist Party in Georgia.

And 14-year-old Kirill Dudko from Ukraine tells the strange story of how he spotted a "sea monster" from his bedroom. 

Picture: A group of Afghan women walk wearing burqas. Credit: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images.

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