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Oct 2022
21 m

Various security alerts issued for Niger...

Bbc World Service
About this episode

Security alerts in Nigeria and South Africa... We'll hear what they entail and how people are preparing to weather the warnings.

And the story of how a four year-old Tunisian child ended up in Italy - on her own - after crossing on a smuggler's boat.

Those stories and much more in this podcast with Audrey Brown.

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