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The Fifth Floor: The Presidents came in two by two

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20/03/2020 GMT

The Presidents came in two by two

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If one president is good, are two better?  Stories from Guinea Bissau and Afghanistan

If one president is good, are two better?  Stories from Guinea Bissau and Afghanistan.

Afghanistan's last election delivered not one but two presidents.  Two swearing-ins followed, and both presidents continue to claim to the be rightful leader.  But the Afghans are not alone: Guinea Bissau also found itself with two presidents recently.  BBC Afghan's Dawood Azami and BBC Africa's Peter Okwoche discuss this strange phenomenon.  

My Home Town: Masvingo
Memories of new schools and Stone Age monuments with BBC Africa's Stanley Kwenda from his hometown of Masvingo, Zimbabwe.

BBC Indonesian's mother and child reunion
Rohmatin Bonasir explains how her recent report about an undocumented Indonesian working in Malaysia was the catalyst for reuniting a son with the mother he last saw 15 years ago.  

Lenin in Vietnam 
There's controversy in Vietnam over the gift from Russia of a statue of Lenin to Nghe An, the home province of the founding father of communist Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, as Giang Nguyen of BBC Vietnamese explains. 

Image:  Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, both claim to be president
Credit:  Noorullah Shirzada/AFP via Getty Images

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