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04/04/2015

Risk and Reward

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Risk and Reward

Insight and analysis from BBC correspondents in Nigeria, Yemen, Syria, China and Suriname

Insights from BBC correspondents around the world into: Nigeria's elections, war in Yemen, the trauma of Syrians worldwide, China's super rich and fortune-seekers in Suriname

Owen Bennett Jones introduces insight and analysis from BBC correspondents around the world. In this edition:
Gabriel Gatehouse in Lagos revels in the high hopes - and traffic-free streets - of Nigeria's election;
Frank Gardner traces the origins and aims of Yemen's Houthi rebels;
Lina Sinjab exposes the psychological toll which four years of war have taken on Syrians, inside and beyond Syria itself;
Linda Yueh strolls the Bund in Shanghai and sees many signs of a new emergent class of super-rich entrepreneurs;
and Jonathan Fryer travels to Paramaribo, meeting many a fortune-seeking Brazilian on his way around Suriname.

Photo: A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Lagos during presidential elections on March 29, 2015 (AFP/Getty Images)

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