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From Our Own Correspondent: Marking their Territory

Marking Their Territory

15/08/2015

Marking their Territory

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Marking their Territory

Stories of how control is exerted - and marked out - in Egypt, Mali, Cuba and Albania.

Stories from the insurgency in the Egyptian Sinai; the chaos of Mali's mail system; a historic drive to work down Havana's Malecon; the bedraggled mascots watching over Albanians.

Stories of how control is exerted - and marked out - in Egypt, Mali, Cuba and Albania. 

Pascale Harter introduces with and insight from correspondents around the world: Yolande Knell hears from civilians caught between the Egyptian military and the so-called Islamic State as insurgency rages Sinai; Alex Duval Smith meets one of Bamako's few true public servants, the postman who must navigate the chaos of Mali's mail system; Will Grant takes a picturesque drive to work down Havana's Malecon, where the landmarks and the cars are saturated with historic memories;  and Elizabeth Gowing explains why Albanian homes and businesses are so often presided over by a bedraggled soft toy. 

(Photo: A member of the Egyptian security forces stands guard next to a damaged bus after a roadside bomb blast wounded 20 Egyptian policemen on the outskirts of El-Arish on July 9, 2015. Credit: AFP/STR/Getty Images)

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