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Sahafa Â鶹ÊÓƵAV

Dodging bullets to reach the Yemeni port of Aden, and stories from South Africa, Turkey, China and Russia.

The human stories behind the news headlines: dodging bullets while trying to reach Yemen's port of Aden, where the hospital is overwhelmed with casualties. The Africans who moved to South Africa for a better life, and ended up having to seek refuge from violence in a squalid camp. In Turkey's south-east, a hundred years after the Armenian minority was massacred, the Kurdish minority has hopes for a stronger presence in national politics. China and Russia are best buddies at the moment, but it hasn't always been thus, as one woman whose life mirrors the relationship between these two countries knows all too well. And what are the chances of getting pneumonia each time you stay in the same, foreign country? That's if you count Russia and the Soviet Union as the same country.

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30 minutes

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Sat 25 Apr 2015 11:30

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  • Sat 25 Apr 2015 11:30