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From Our Own Correspondent: The US’s Invisible Army

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America’s Invisible Army

24/03/2018 GMT

The US’s Invisible Army

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, The US’s Invisible Army

Pascale Harter introduces stories from writers around the world.

Pascale Harter hears from reporters in Afghanistan, Nigeria, Greece and the British Virgin Islands.

Pascale Harter introduces stories about war, mixed messages and communities from writers around the world.

The BBC's Justin Rowlatt has returned after spending almost two weeks with the American forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan. This base is now the home to almost a third of US Air Force drones. These so-called reapers bring death from above and almost turn killing into a video game but are their use in such numbers justifiable?

Stephanie Heggarty visited Dapchi directly after the mass kidnapping of 110 school girls by Boko Haram. Most of the children have now been returned but questions still remain about how this incident - which has striking similarities with the 2014 mass abduction of girls in Chibok, was allowed to happen. 

In Greece we walk through a district notorious for its anarchist inhabitants, but there is now a new group of people living among the squatters. Sally Howard meets asylum seekers who have escaped the squalid conditions and violence of refugee camps and are making their home in buildings falling into disrepair due to economic crisis. 

And finally, Peter Blake revisits the British Virgin Islands six months after the devastation of Hurricane Irma and witnesses first-hand the struggles facing the community as they try to make their Islands open for business. 

Photo: A US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile stands on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport on June 13, 2010. (MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images)

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