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Getting News from the Nuba Mountains

Ryan Boyette left Florida for a new life in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan and founded a team of citizen journalists reporting from one of the world's most remote regions

Ahmed Khatir took up a camera rather than a gun to report on the forgotten conflict in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. We also hear from American Ryan Boyette, based in Sudan, who founded the organisation which trained Ahmed.

Tanja Mihhailova is Estonia's entrant in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. She's also a member of Estonia's Russian-speaking minority.

British writer Diana Darke bought an old house in Damascus which has now become a refuge for Syrians sheltering from the civil war. Her book is called My House in Damascus: An Inside View of the Syrian Revolution.

Picture: Ahmed Khatir, citizen journalist in the Nuba Mountains

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55 minutes

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Wed 7 May 2014 02:06GMT

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  • Tue 6 May 2014 11:06GMT
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  • Wed 7 May 2014 02:06GMT

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