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Devastation after Hurricane Maria

29/09/2017 GMT

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Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria: BBC Mundo's Lioman Lima was there

Hurricane devastation in Puerto Rico; Russia's youth subculture; Rwandan journeys to the BBC; debate for Libyans; and Cairo's pigeon fanciers. With David Amanor.

Lioman Lima of BBC Mundo is used to hurricanes, having grown up in Cuba. But he was still shocked and terrified when he experienced Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.  He shares his impressions of the devastation of an island he knows well.  

Youth cultures - Moscow's gopniki
In the late 80s, Moscow subcultures flourished and Western influences were everywhere. But one subculture, the gopniki, didn't like the new imports and were willing to fight anyone who adopted them. Pavel Aksenov of BBC Russian remembers those times well.

Rwandan BBC journeys  
Prudent Nsengiyumva and Didier Bikorimana are colleagues at BBC Great Lakes.  Didier first heard the BBC listening to the Great Lakes Lifeline programme as a refugee after the 1994 genocide; Prudent from a young age was determined to be a presenter.  They describe their journeys to the BBC.

Inside Libya - from outside  
How do you make a discussion programme for Libyans with Libyan panellists and a Libyan audience, when you can't go to Libya?   Aya Amead works for BBC Media Action in Tunisia with a team of fellow Libyans on a TV debate show called Hiwar Mushtarak, Joint Conversation.

Cairo's pigeon fanciers
In some neighbourhoods of Cairo, you see wooden lofts or towers on the flat roofs of apartment blocks.  They're for pigeons, which people keep for racing.  Nada Rashwan of BBC Monitoring explains this local passion.
Correction:  In this story the interview as broadcast states that keeping a dog is against Islamic tradition because they are considered to be unclean.  However Nada Rashwan would like us to point out that in the unedited version she qualified this statement to add that this is only in some interpretations of Islam.

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