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Nigerian Pastor, Bears, Poor President

The Nigerian pastor who fears for his flock as they are targetted by Boko Haram, the man who dedicates his life to saving Cambodian Sun Bears and Uruguay's controversial president

People in north-east Nigeria continue to live in fear after being targeted by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Pastor Daniel Awayi leads a church in the town of Potiskum in Yobe state. He says Christians are particularly fearful. His church has come under attack from Boko Haram several times over the past few years, most recently earlier this month.

Jose Mujica was elected as Uruguay's president in 2010, He shuns official palaces in favour of living on his farm and still owns his 1987 blue VW Beetle, which he uses to get to official events. The 大象传媒's Ignacio de los Reyes travelled to Montevideo to meet him.

Jadav Payeng was born on the world's largest river island - Majuli Island in the Brahmaputra River in northeast India. As a teenager in the 1970s he witnessed the effect that climate change was having on the island and to combat erosion he created a forest which now covers 1,300 acres.

Nev Broadis has spent the last ten years rescuing bears in Cambodia and neighbouring countries. The two species of bear which are native to Cambodia - the sun bear and the moon bear - are facing extinction. But Nev and his team from the Australian charity "Free the Bears" are determined to save them.

(Photos: Pastor Daniel Awayi (left), Nev Broadis with Baker the bear cub (centre), President Jose Mujica (right, credit: AP))

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