The destruction of Timbuktu (part 2)

Destroying the great shrines of Timbuktu is Ansar Dine’s way of telling the local population that they are eradicating the old order and starting fresh. François Picard’s panellists warn, however, of a backlash against Ansar Dine and those who supply them across the border in Algeria, but not before a long process.

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Fatoumata Sire DIAKITÉ. President, Association for the Progress and Defense of Women. Former Malian Ambassador to Germany (by telephone from Bamako);
Jeremy KEENAN. Professorial research associate, School of Oriental and African Studies (from London);
Jean Charles BRISARD. Author and consultant on terrorism;
Emmanuel GOUJON. Consultant, Africa Global Approach.

Produced by François Picard, Anelise Borges, Mary Colombel, Christopher Davis.

Watch the first part here.

Presenter

François Picard

25/10/2010 - THE DEBATE

Wikileaks - Is truth dangerous ? part 1

Investigative journalism or site down? For some, Wikileaks.org is the future of investigative journalism and for others it is the site to be shut. On Friday, October 22, Wikileaks revealed 400,000 documents on the war in Iraq - "Iraq War Logs" - the "biggest leak of the story," headlined the press. So can we make a war in transparency? What are the risks associated with this information site?

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22/10/2010 - THE DEBATE

Ivory Coast: finally ready for elections? (Part 2)

Ivory Coast - coming out of seven years of civil war, with the ethnic divide still strong, and the country still cut in two by rebels – finds itself in the homestretch of a presidential election that would seal reconciliation in the once giant of Francophone West Africa. Or would it? The world's top cocoa producer is going to the polls before disarmament.

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22/10/2010 - THE DEBATE

Ivory Coast: finally ready for elections?

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21/10/2010 - THE DEBATE

Austerity: end of the nanny state? (Part 2)

Not only did the new Conservative government announce radical belt-tightening to shed 500 000 jobs, big cuts in the public sector, and a rise in the retirement age to 68, the British Finance Minister warned that citizens no longer want a public sector that answers to the aspirations and expectations of the 1950s. How far is the pendulum swinging?