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Weekend: Deadly hurricane sweeps through Mississippi

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26/03/2023 GMT

Deadly hurricane sweeps through Mississippi

BBC World Service - Weekend, Deadly hurricane sweeps through Mississippi

Death and destruction after a hurricane swept through the US state of Mississippi

At least 26 people have died in Mississippi and Alabama after a tornado tore through the southern US states.

Mississippi's state government has declared a state of emergency after a tornado tore through southern US states.

At least 26 people have died in Mississippi and Alabama and search and rescue efforts are continuing. Our correspondent there tells us more about the situation people are facing.

Also in the programme: we will hear from two journalists who have reported from and on Iraq for the past two decades; and how Cary Grant's suit captured the imagination of one US writer growing up in 1960s America.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss all this and more are Maria Margaronis, a British journalist of Greek descent and radio documentary maker, and Bulama Bukarti, Nigerian analyst and Senior fellow on security in Sub-Saharan Africa at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.

(Photo shows a vehicle sitting on top of a pile of rubble in Rolling Fork, Mississippi on 25 March 2023. Credit: Cheney Orr/Reuters)

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