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The morning "a fire broke out"

Friday 9 September 2016

"September 11, 2001, 20 to nine on a beautiful sunny morning in New York. The view from the windows of the AFP bureau, on the 34th floor of a Manhattan tower block, is glorious", remembers AFP reporter Michel Moutot. "And suddenly, the NY1 anchor says they're getting reports of a fire high up in one of the World Trade Center towers..."

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Embedded in Mali

Tuesday 30 June 2015

"The thermometer in the foyer is stuck on 50 degrees Celsius. The highest it can go," writes AFP's Michel Moutot. "It’s not yet noon on the French army base at Timbuktu airport."

"Why did AFP ask to follow a French army unit into Mali's lawless north? Two reasons. Firstly, to report on the soldiers actions on the ground. Secondly to gain access, under the protection of the army, to one of a rising number of places in the world where reporters can no longer venture alone without risk of kidnapping or death."

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