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What's Old is New Again

Reality Check: Putin - the Comeback Kid, The Arctic Sea Ice Puddle, Saudi Women Can Vote, Wangari Maathi Passes Away, and Kenyan Agriculture Evolves Further.

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Putin - The Comeback Kid

While there's been speculation that his face is new, what's not uncertain is that Vladimir Putin wants his old job back. Will the tag-team of Putin-Dmitry Medvedev be able to pull off a job switcheroo without any regard for the democratic process? Steve Crilley spoke about just that with FM4's Moscow reporter Charles Maynes.

The Arctic Sea Ice Puddle
If you're drawing a map of the Arctic North today, you'll probably have to adjust the lines representing the sea borders in a year's time. Arctic sea ice is melting at an alarming rate. That's what Greenpeace campaigner Frida Bengtsson told Joanna Bostock.

Saudi Women Can Vote
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has granted women the right to vote today. Did His Majesty wake up today and realise it was 2011 or is he fearful of an Arab Saudi Ladies Spring?

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Wangari Maathai Passes Away

“You must not deal only with the symptoms. You have to get to the root causes by promoting environmental rehabilitation and empowering people to do things for themselves. What is done for the people without involving them cannot be sustained.”
Wangari Maathai quote
Riem Higazi profiles the Nobel Prize-winning activist who died in Nairobi today.

Kenyan Agriculture Evolves Further
Three drops a day and your mangos will sway!! David Mathenge from the Green Belt Movement of Kenya describes a fascinating agriculture project set to help the Masai people grow crops.