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Assignment A Return to Helmand

The Documentary: Archive 2008 by BBC

Dec 18, 200822:39Society & Culture

Last year our correspondent Jill McGivering reported from Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan on the constant violence and the struggle to bring development to the region. Now she's returned, one year on, to see if...

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