June 18, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 18 June 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The ultimate failed state. That's what some call Somalia in the Horn of Africa. Peter Greste is in the capital Mogadishu, perhaps the most dangerous city in the world. He's finding out why thousands of Somalis are leaving homes in the countryside and flooding in to the city? Another mass migration's going on in China. But, as Juliana Liu tells us, difficulties can lie ahead for the country people heading for town in search of a better life. Paul Henley's been looking at an economic boom that's lifting parts of Poland; one port city's described as the future Sydney and Dubai of the Baltic. The worst drought in fifty years has hit Texas. Jonny Dymond finds one rancher whose fortunes are suffering -- but he says he's battling on: it's the American way. And she's called the Miss Marple of the Himalayas; Joanna Jolly meets the woman who keeps climbers in Nepal roped to the truth.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to From Our Own Correspondent from the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | You can also hear the World Service Edition of the program on the BBC I Player, |
| 0:08.6 | but this is the latest program from Radio 4, introduced by Kate Aide. Today why thousands of people are pouring |
| 0:16.0 | into Mogadishu, the Somali city reckoned by some to be the most dangerous place on |
| 0:20.6 | earth. There's an awkward encounter in Shanghai with a visiting country cousin. Economic |
| 0:26.7 | boom arrives in Poland, where in the port they say will be the Dubai of the Baltic, and |
| 0:32.4 | mountaineering's Miss Marple, the woman who keeps climbers |
| 0:35.6 | rope to the truth on Mount Everest. |
| 0:39.7 | Somalia in the Horn of Africa is the ultimate failed state, a land of war, banditry and piracy. |
| 0:45.8 | This week at least 12 people were killed in a pitched battle there between the Islamist rebel |
| 0:50.4 | group al-Shabaab and pro-government militiamen. |
| 0:54.0 | Al-Shabaab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, now controls large areas of the country. |
| 0:58.6 | It's pledged to overthrow the fragile government in the capital Mogadishu. |
| 1:03.0 | Peter Grester, who's just back from there, |
| 1:05.0 | says it isn't just lawlessness and violence which Somalis have to contend with. |
| 1:10.0 | There's also a serious drought which has caused crop failures, a shortage of food and has resulted |
| 1:15.3 | in urgent appeals for aid. |
| 1:18.2 | The Mayor of Mogadishu insists his city isn't the most dangerous place in the world. |
| 1:23.0 | In fact, Mohammed Noo reckons it isn't as bad as Kabul or even Baghdad. |
| 1:27.7 | Of course it's not as safe as we'd like it to be, he told me, that we are making progress. Calling it safe might be a stretch. |
| 1:35.0 | The mayor has a street lighting program. |
| 1:37.0 | I know because I saw the lights flicker on the only three blocks is done |
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