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The Fifth Floor: Kenya's camel-back clinic

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18/10/2019 GMT

Kenya's camel-back clinic

BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, Kenya's camel-back clinic

Taking the doctors to the herders: all aboard the medical camel caravan

Taking the doctors to the herders: all aboard the medical camel caravan.

Healthcare can be hard to come by for Kenya's Maasai, Samburu and Turkana nomadic peoples.  So camels have been enlisted to bring a mobile clinic to them.  BBC Africa’s Christine Njeri joined them. 

Poland's Vietnamese community
Poland's Law and Justice party has just won a second term in office.  The party has been accused by some of fostering xenophobic sentiment.  Giang Nguyen of BBC Vietnamese talked to young Polish Vietnamese voters about their experiences thirty years after his own arrival as a student in Warsaw. 

My Home Town: Seoul
David Oh of BBC Korean takes us to the Seoul of his childhood, ice skating on the Han river, and going up the mountain with his parents to get fresh water. 

Named by Christopher Columbus 
There are annual celebrations in the Americas on 12 October to mark the day in 1492 when Christopher Columbus first made landfall in the New World.  For BBC Mundo, Analia Llorente has been investigating some of the many place names he bestowed which are still used today.

Ethiopia's Maekelawi Prison
Maekelawi prison in Addis Ababa was notorious as a place of fear and torture for nearly half a century.  It finally shut in 2018, but reopened on Justice Day for journalists and visitors.  BBC Amharic's Kalkidan Yibeltal went along.  



Image: Christine Njeri with medical camel caravan
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