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Reality Check: South Africa after Mandela

Crucial general elections in South Africa, Bulgaria struggles with Syrian refugees, USA offers to help find Nigerian schoolgirls, Obama on climate Change, counting the world's glaciers

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Some of the hundreds of people waiting to cast their vote at a polling station near Johannesburg

South African Elections
South Africans go to the polls today in the 5th general election since the end of apartheid in 1994 and the first since the death of Nelson Mandela last year. We look at the parties, the issues and the views of young people born after Apartheid

Syrian refugees in Bulgaria
Overcrowding, poor sanitary conditions and resentment from the local population, even after they have managed to escape the terrors of war back in Syria, Syrian refugees still have a great deal to contend with. We’ve heard of the problems in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey but Bulgaria, one of Europe’s poorest countries is also struggling with the problem

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Protesters take part in a march in the Nigerian capital Abuja over the government's failure to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists

US & #BringBackOurGirls
Last month more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted in north eastern Nigeria by Boko Haram. Now there’s an international outcry, and the US government is mobilizing specialized teams to help the Nigerian government. A report from Washington

US & Climate Change
The Obama administration has released an updated report on climate change which some say could be a game changer when it comes to building support among Americans for efforts to combat global warming. A report from Washington:

Glacier Inventory
Global warming is here and it looks like it’s here to stay and it will of course have an impact on every facet of life on earth. One of the big questions is what is happening to the world’s glaciers. Finding the answers relies on knowing just how many glaciers are there in the world exactly. Professor Alex Gardner from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, explains: