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Pascale Harter introduces correspondents' dispatches from northeast Syria, the Tanzania/Kenya border and the Philippines. During his visit to Washington this week, Syria’s interim president Ahmed Al Sharaa announced that Syria will join the coalition of 90 countries trying to eliminate the remnants of the Islamic State group. All this as the threat of IS is increasing inside Syria itself. 8,000 suspected IS fighters remain in jails, and 34,000 of their family members are held in camps, run by Syrian Kurdish forces. Orla Guerin has seen how the new generation is growing up in these camps, where the pull of IS ideology is still strong. Tanzania's re-elected president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, was inaugurated after the country’s electoral commission declared she had won 98 per cent of the vote. In her speech she insisted the election was free and fair - though critics accuse the government of eliminating any credible political competition. There have been violent protests over the election - and a police and media crackdown in response. Victor Kenani reports from Tanzania’s border with Kenya, where he witnessed the tactics Tanzanian security forces were using. Last week the Philippines was hit by Typhoon Fung-wong - the twenty first big tropical storm to hit the country this year. Jonathan Head reflects on how the country copes with its vulnerability to natural disasters - and the growing anger over where millions of dollars designated for improving flood defences may have gone instead. Producer: Polly Hope Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith Production Co-Ordinator: Katie Morrison Image: People in the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters in the northeastern Hasakeh governorate of Syria. (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)