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BBC World Service
Exposing bogus blindness treatments
41 minutes Posted Mar 31, 2023 at 1:14 pm.
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BBC Arabic’s recent film ‘Blind Faith’ exposes the clinics offering bogus, and potentially dangerous, treatments to people living with an incurable eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, or RP. The reporter is Ramadan Younes, who's based in Egypt. He also has RP and is visually impaired, and underwent one of these treatments himself.

Vietnamese embassy protests in Poland

Poland's Vietnamese community has been protesting outside the Vietnamese embassy in Warsaw, and demanding the resignation of the ambassador, over allegations of overcharging and illegal fees for visas and passports. BBC Vietnamese editor Giang Nguyen has been following the story.

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(Photo: BBC Arabic's Ramadan Younes. Credit: BBC)