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Last month marked nine years since over 200 girls were kidnapped by jihadists from a school in northern Nigeria. Organized crime has had to reorganize, too. Campbelltown on a western Scottish peninsula used to be known as the whiskey capital of the world. After a century of mostly decline, global exports and prices are on the rise.

Criminal networks have had to reorganise since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with knock-on effects from Afghanistan to the Andes. We take a look at the scourge of abductions in Nigeria, and what is being done for the families of the missing. And Scotland’s Campbeltown whisky is enjoying a long-awaited resurgence.

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