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| - We are offering the following Editor's Choice stories which have been selected by AFP's chief editors for re-publication as some of the best of the week: + Montenegro learns true cost of China-backed $1 bn road to nowhere + Searching for Gertrude Bell, colonial 'mother' of modern Iraq + Buenaventura: Colombia's port of the missing + As Covid cases rose, so did hospital hacks in France + 'Limnic eruption': DR Congo's volcano nightmare Montenegro-China-road-debt,FOCUS MATESEVO, Montenegro Two sleek new roads vanish into mountain tunnels high above a sleepy Montenegrin village, the unlikely endpoint of a billion-dollar project bankrolled by China that is threatening to derail the tiny country's economy. 850 words by Olivera Nikolic. Pictures by Savo Prelevic. Video by Vladimir Vucinic Iraq-Britain-history-politics,FOCUS BAGHDAD For someone credited with being an architect of the nation, the grave of British archaeologist, writer, diplomat and spy Gertrude Bell in the Iraqi capital Baghdad is hard to find. 800 words by Sammy Ketz. Picture. Video Colombia-conflict-drugs,FOCUS BUENAVENTURA, Colombia Under the terror reign of Colombia's warring guerrilla and paramilitary groups, the people of Buenaventura were dismembered alive, their screams meant to serve as a warning to others. Now, under the drug gangs, they disappear quietly. 1,100 words by Hector Velasco. Pictures by Luis Robayo. Video by Juan Restrepo IT-security-France-ransomware-crime-health,FOCUS DAX, France At 2:00 a.m. on a day in early February, the deputy director of the main hospital in the southwestern French town of Dax took an urgent call from a normally unflappable colleague in the IT department. 900 words by Adam Plowright. File picture DRCongo-volcano-gas,FOCUS GOMA, DR Congo Orders to evacuate Goma, a city lying in the shadow of DR Congo's Mount Nyiragongo volcano, have shed light on a rare but potentially catastrophic risk -- a "limnic eruption," when volcanic activity combined with a deep lake can spew out lethal, suffocating gas. 600 words afp
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