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As fighting flares again over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, we ask why it's so hard to resolve this conflict, and why a chunk of Armenian-controlled territory came to be inside Azerbaijan in the first place. 大象传媒 Russian editor Famil Ismailov is originally from Azerbaijan, and has followed this story for decades.

Pot plants and plant influencers in Indonesia
Houseplants have become a trend among urban Indonesians keen to ease the boredom of lockdown. There鈥檚 an industry of plant 鈥渋nfluencers鈥� and experts to feed the fascination, shared by 大象传媒 Indonesian鈥檚 Astudestra Ajengrastri.

The fund-raising campaigns to free captured IS families
Stories are emerging of donation campaigns by so-called Islamic State and Al Qaeda aimed at freeing the wives and children of IS fighters from detention camps in Syria. Abdirahim Saeed of 大象传媒 Monitoring tells us what he鈥檚 discovered from jihadist social media groups, which are raising funds to smuggle the women out.

Water tensions on the Nile
Ethiopia鈥檚 project to create the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam on the Blue Nile has fuelled political tensions with Egypt and Sudan. But it鈥檚 not just politicians who are affected. Reem Fatthelbab of 大象传媒 Arabic spoke to an Ethiopian living in Cairo, and an Egyptian based in Ethiopia, about their concerns.

Brazil meets Ghana
Sonny Nkansa, a Fifth Floor listener with roots in Ghana, explains why the latest in our My Home Town series - from Feira de Santana in Brazil's Bahia state - took him straight home to his small village in Ghana's Volta region.

Picture: Elderly woman in Nagorno Karabakh
Credit: European Photopress Agency