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From Our Own Correspondent: Playing the Long Game

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Playing the Long Game

02/04/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Playing the Long Game

Routes to power in Myanmar, Spanish youth custody, global drugs policy, Ethiopian hyenas

Insights into the routes to power in Myanmar's new government, Spain's nurturing youth custody centres, whether it's time to change global drugs policy and the hyenas of Ethiopia

Pascale Harter introduces insights, analysis, and personal experiences from correspondents and writers around the world. In this edition: 

Jonah Fisher analyses Aung San Suu Kyi's long game for power: how she outwitted Myanmar's military junta, and ended up with a fistful of governmental posts for herself despite being denied the country's Presidency;

Rachel Wright asks whether, as the UN prepares to debate global narcotics policy at a special assembly session in New York, the world has tired of the war on drugs, and is eager to try other tactics;

In southern Spain, Nick Beake visits what must be some of the world's most nurturing and holistic youth detention centres, and hears about the philosophy which governs them and their inmates;

and James Jeffrey runs - or more likely jogs - alongside the hyenas who roam wild around Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.

Photo: Party members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) celebrate in front of the parliament building after the swearing-in ceremony of new Myanmar President Htin Kyaw, Naypyidaw, March 30, 2016. The new President is a close aide to Aung San Suu Kyi and widely seen as her proxy in government. (ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images)

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