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Below are reporters working on the current series of Crossing Continents.


Lucy Ash

Lucy Ash

Lucy Ash travelled to Chechnya where prominent human rights worker Natalia Estemirova was shot dead on 15 July, 2009. Natalia he one of the people Lucy interviewed while investigating the treatment of women in Chechnya.


Bill Law

Bill Law

Two thirds of the Pakistani population is under the age of 25. Bill Law investigated if Pakistani youngsters are in danger of joining the ranks of the Taliban or are they fighting back against the extremists?


Humphrey Hawksley

Humphrey Hawksley

Humphrey Hawksley retraced the journey undertaken on foot by the author Graham Greene from Sierra Leone across Liberia in 1935.


Grant Ferrett

Grant Ferrett

Grant Ferrett travelled to Southern Sudan to investigate claims that Africa's biggest nation is sliding back to civil war.


Linda Pressly

Linda Pressly

What can a Shiite Middle Eastern theocracy share with a socialist, salsa-loving Latin American nation? Linda Pressly sifted the evidence in Caracas.



Lyse Doucet

Lyse Doucet

Lyse Doucet reported from Afghanistan on the US-led international forces efforts to adopt a new counterinsurgency strategy.


Bill Law

Bill Law

Bill Law also told the story of young gangsters, exploiting legal loopholes to build a multi-billion dollar illicit drugs industry in Vancouver with business savvy and bullets.


Magdi Abdelhadi

Magdi Abdelhadi

Magdi Abdelhadi reported from Egypt where now that President Mubarak has turned 81 years old Egyptians are considering how they will be governed once he has gone.



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