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Kate Adie introduces stories on the G7 summit and Donald Trump's Iran deal, the ongoing Ebola crisis in DRC, Peru's knife-edge elections, South Korea's feminist literary circles, and Ghana's world cup dreams.President Donald Trump once again dominated the agenda at the latest G7 ...  Show more

Kate Adie presents stories on the deserters from Myanmar's military forces, African POWs in Ukraine, Ahmedebad a year on from the Air India crash, South Africa and Belize.Myanmar’s military, which seized power from the democratically elected government in 2021, reactivated a cons ...  Show more

Warning: this episode contains descriptions of injuries.

Myanmar is home to one of the deadliest, most intractable civil wars on the planet. But something new is happening. Unusual numbers of young people from the cities, including students, poets and baristas, ha ...

It’s been three years since Myanmar’s military coup when the army took control of the country, a decade after agreeing to hand power to a civilian government. A civil war broke out after the after the military used lethal force to put down mass protests in the weeks after the cou ...  Show more

Nearly 400,000 ethnic Rohingya have fled Myanmar across the border to Bangladesh. By the time you listen to this, that number will almost surely be much higher. 

Today we speak to journalist Daphne Wesdorp about her time staying with the Myanmar rebels deep in the jungles of Karen state. She saw how they live, how they fight, and how they stay motivated to contiune their struggle against the military junta despite being ignored by the wor ...  Show more