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The Power of Technology

Tales of development or decline from around the world: war in South Sudan, Cuba's limited Web, consumers in Myanmar, Bolivia's changing skyline and a marooned baboon in Zimbabwe.

This edition looks at how technology can help countries advance - or fall back into chaos. Tristan McConnell travels to the devastated towns and settlements of South Sudan; Will Grant tries to get online - expensively - in Cuba; Charlotte McDonald hears how Burmese families are reacting to new home comforts in Yangon; Katy Watson takes a look at the flamboyant new constructions changing the skyline of La Paz and El Alto in Bolivia, and Chris Haslam has a tale of a baboon marooned (and possibly doomed) in Zimbabwe.

(Photo: Opening of the spill gates of the Kariba Dam, Zambia, February 2008. Credit: Collins Phiri/AFP/Getty Images)

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Sun 26 Oct 2014 22:05GMT

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  • Sat 25 Oct 2014 18:05GMT
  • Sun 26 Oct 2014 00:05GMT
  • Sun 26 Oct 2014 09:05GMT
  • Sun 26 Oct 2014 22:05GMT