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Broken-hearted in Beirut

Saturday 17 April 2021

“I never thought a day would come when survivors of the war would tell me there was something worse during peacetime,” writes Beirut’s deputy bureau chief Layal Abou Rahal. Born halfway through Lebanon’s devastating 15-year civil war, she never imagined the heart-ache, hunger and hopelessness her country would experience more than two decades later.

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  • AFP / Kola Sulaimon
  • AFP / Kola Sulaimon
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  • AFP / Kola Sulaimon
  • AFP / Kola Sulaimon

The sentry in the north

Sophie Bouillon Monday 5 April 2021

“We thought we’d covered every kind of atrocity. But for three months now, the horror has reached a new level, as much of our daily reporting is about mass kidnappings of children for ransom,” writes our deputy Lagos bureau chief Sophie Bouillon, describing the work of Aminu Abubakar and the rest of our tireless reporting team in Nigeria.

 

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Choosing to forget

Laurie Chen Sunday 4 April 2021

Travelling to Wuhan to cover an international probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, Beijing correspondent Laurie Chen found a city labouring under an unspoken divide between those who choose to remember the city’s traumatic initial outbreak, and those who choose to forget.

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  • AFP / Kazuhiro Nogi
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Remembering Japan's tsunami disaster

Sara Hussein Saturday 13 March 2021

Tokyo - In March 2011, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off Japan’s northeast coast, causing a deadly tsunami that triggered a nuclear meltdown.

AFP’s Tokyo bureau mobilised quickly, and journalists have spent years reporting from the affected Tohoku region. A decade after the disaster, which left around 18,500 people dead or missing, AFP journalists returned to the area to report a series of stories ahead of the anniversary.

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