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Claire Cozens
AFP's deputy bureau chief in New Delhi.
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Serious monkey business

Monday 27 June 2016

"For weeks, the water supply in my New Delhi flat had been erratic," writes AFP's New Delhi deputy bureau chief Claire Cozens. "Every evening I would turn on the household pump and water would gush into the tank on the roof; every morning, I would turn on the bathroom taps, and after a brief, hopeful splutter -- nothing."

After weeks of intensive investigation, the culprits were finally found -- monkeys. The latest example of the monkey menace with which the the residents of the teeming  metropolis have to live...

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Patience and resilience in quake-hit Nepal

Wednesday 20 May 2015

"Two words tweeted by a Nepali journalist friend moments after the second quake last Tuesday summed up the mood in Kathmandu: 'Enough already'," writes AFP's Claire Cozens. "Few people slept that night. Like the buildings imperceptibly weakened by the first quake that crumbled in the second, the city's stoicism appeared to falter. And yet just a day later, residents were out helping the army clear rubble from the streets. No one expected the government to help, so they were helping themselves – and each other."

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