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Burma and Morocco

Owen Bennett Jones presents stories by Caroline Hawley in Burma and Nora Fakim in Morocco.

Owen Bennett Jones presents stories by Caroline Hawley in Burma and Nora Fakim in Morocco.

The government in Burma is pushing on with reforms and next weekend there are parliamentary elections. The changes are encouraging the tourists back – among them Caroline Hawley.

In Morocco over a quarter of graduates are looking for work. And so far this year five unemployed graduates in Rabat have set fire to themselves, not all fatally, in protest.

Nora Fakim has been talking to one of the graduates who is in hospital.

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Thu 29 Mar 2012 00:50GMT

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