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From Our Own Correspondent: Starting Over

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Starting Over

09/09/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Starting Over

Stories from the Bangladesh/Myanmar border, Uganda's refugees, German bars and Colombia

How to begin again? Stories from Rohingya refugees in Burma, South Sudanese families' new homes in Uganda, the "hipster enclaves" of Berlin, and Colombia's dramatic cycle races

How to begin your life again - sometimes with the barest minimum of tools to hand? Pascale Harter introduces stories of resilience and resourcefulness from around the world. 

As thousands of Rohingya people have streamed out of Myanmar and across the border into Bangladesh, Sanjoy Majumder has been hearing what drove them from their homes and what they believe is causing the violence in Rakhine state.

Uganda is often described as having the world's most generous policy on refugees - not just granting them the right to stay, but plots of land to farm and build on. Ruth Alexander sees what that means for the families who've fled civil war and hunger in South Sudan.

Is Berlin becoming a "hipster enclave" where you'll rarely hear a word of German spoken? Damien McGuinness might not go that far, but as Germany prepares for its general election, he does wonder why language is back on the political agenda.

And amid Colombia's dramatic scenery, Mark Rickards explores why cycling is such a national passion, for a nation with such steep (and exhausting) road routes. It turns out that after decades of civil war and criminal violence, the sport has huge appeal across political and regional divides.

Photo: Rohingya refugees from Rakhine State, Myanmar, wait in line at camps in southern Bangladesh, early September 2017. (c) BBC

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