No quiet on any front: Ethiopia’s clash of conflicts
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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After a five-month hiatus, violence has returned to the northern region of Tigray—but that is just one of the conflicts threatening to pull the country to pieces. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has made it a prominent developing-world lender. How will it deal with so many of its loans souring? And our obituaries editor reflects on Issey Miyake’s fashion-for-the-masses philosophy.
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| 0:59.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. Today, from London, I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:13.6 | China's Belt and Road Initiative has put railways, ports, and pipelines all over from the Indian Ocean to South America. |
| 1:20.6 | We examine how China is dealing with being a global infrastructure lender, especially as so many countries are struggling to pay up. |
| 1:30.4 | And Izimiyake knew from a young age that he wanted to be a fashion designer. |
| 1:35.4 | Our obituaries editor looks back on his journey to becoming one, all the while keeping a troubling secret about his childhood. |
| 2:02.6 | Music a troubling secret about his childhood. First up, though. For five months of fragile truce had held in Ethiopia. The agreement promised relief for millions facing starvation in Tigray, |
| 2:07.6 | home to the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front or TPLF that's been facing off against the government for nearly two years. |
| 2:14.6 | That ceasefire, though, has collapsed....telling us that the humanitarian situation in northern Ethiopia continues to be alarming. |
| 2:24.0 | There are unconfirmed reports of displacements in frontline areas in Amhara and the Afar regions. |
| 2:30.2 | Deliveries of humanitarian supplies by road into Tigray have been suspended since last week. |
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