The Economist.

The Economist.

Hello and welcome to Rosie Bloor.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. Subsea cables may sound mundane, but these are the arteries of our international

telecommunications systems. Unfortunately, that means they're also vulnerable to all sorts of murky

activity.

And there's a new remedy that might help dissipate one source of anxiety for half the world's population.

Nope, not antidepressants or anything like that.

It's a powder that could stop your period being quite such a bloody nuisance. First up though, though.

The The Gebito Naima was a month pregnant when men with guns burned her home and

stole everything she had.

Terrified, she fled from her village in eastern Congo and with a dozen relatives she

walked for a week hoping to reach Uganda the much more peaceful country next door.

Robert Guest is a deputy editor at The Economist.

I'm going to be able to get her.

She told me, we had nothing, no food at all, only stream water and wild fruit.

When she crossed the border she said she was weak and hungry.

I'm going to hang up with her. hungry.

As she was fleeing, she was pregnant. She was pregnant. She told me that that famished journey and the months of deprivation that followed it may have affected her unborn daughter.

She notes how the girl Amina, who's 11 years old now, is noticeably slower than her younger brother Moberaka,

who was better nourished both in the womb and in infancy. Is he curious? Is he curious? Is he curious? Is he curious? Is he interested? Is he want to know what she's doing?

She said, what she said he always wants to know things he sees older kids climbing trees

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