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From Our Own Correspondent: DRC: Life after the Lord's Resistance Army

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Convent Provides Long-Term Care For Victims Of The Lord's Resistance Army

16/03/2024 GMT

DRC: Life after the Lord's Resistance Army

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, DRC: Life after the Lord's Resistance Army

In remote parts of D R Congo, survivors of the LRA's reign of terror rebuild their lives.

Survivors of the LRA's reign of terror rebuild their lives; why Panama Canal's water levels matter; how the migrant trade reshaped France's coast; the female DJs making Iran dance

Pascale Harter introduces correspondents' and reporters' stories from the D R Congo's remote jungle, the Panama Canal, the beaches of northern France and the DJ booths of Iran.

The notorious Lord's Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony, once imposed a reign of terror across a swathe of eastern Central Africa, and drove hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. It was the stuff of international headlines and global campaigning. But since then the world's attention has moved on. What happened to the communities which once had to face the rebel army? Hugh Kinsella Cunningham travelled to the remote Haut-Uele province to find out. 

One crucial measure for global trade is measured not in dollars, euros or percentage points - but in feet. The level of water in the Panama Canal can have a drastic knock-on effect on shipping costs - the current drought raises concerns for the canal's future. Michelle Fleury saw just how narrow the its operating margins can be. 

France and the United Kingdom have wrangled for decades over how to stop small boats carrying migrants to British shores. As many other ways to cross the Channel illegally have been fenced or blocked off, the profits of people-smuggling networks using small craft have ballooned. Andrew Harding traces how the criminal traffic in migrants has evolved - and reshaped the landscape of Northern France's coastline.

And Faranak Amidi talks to women who have truly had to fight for their right to party: the female DJs running the risk of arrest, police repression and public harassment to ply their trade playing electronic music.  

Producer: Polly Hope
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Production Co-Ordinator: Katie Morrison


(Image: Convent provides long-term care for victims of the Lord's Resistance Army Credit: (Photo by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/Getty Images)

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