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A Hostile Environment

05/05/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, A Hostile Environment

Tales from Nigerian returnees, Armenia's protests, Suriname's rainforest and Goan beaches

Dashed hopes for would-be migrants returned to Nigeria; scenes from Armenia's latest revolution; a Surinamese forest defender and a row over Indian tourists' effect on Goa

Pascale Harter introduces stories of disappointment, delight - and disgust - from around the world. 

Colin Freeman hears from a number of young Nigerian men who've tried to make it to Europe via the dangerous migrant route through Libya - and failed. The UN and EU are funding a project to return them home safely and retrain for new jobs, but can it work?

Rayhan Demytrie's been on the streets of Yerevan seeing a surge of 'people power' amid the demonstrations which pushed former President and Prime Minister Serzh Sargisyan from office, and describes the new mood in the country.

Huw Cordey finds his way through Suriname's thick, verdant vegetation, with the help of a man who knows the forest intimately, and wants to protect its rich plant and animal life from destruction. 

And Sushma Puri explores a row over tourism which has raised temperatures in Goa. Visitors from the rest of India - especially the north - can tend to treat the southwestern state as a beach playground where anything goes. But after a local politician denounced them as "scum of the earth", it might be time for both Goa and its guests to clean up their act.

Photo: Returnees alight from a chartered aircraft that brought home 150 migrants from Libya at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, on December 5, 2017. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)

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