No quiet on any front: Ethiopia’s clash of conflicts
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🗓️ 2 September 2022
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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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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:06.8 | Today from London, I'm your host Jason Palmer. |
| 0:10.2 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:18.6 | China's Belt and Road Initiative has put railways, ports and pipelines all over from the Indian |
| 0:23.7 | Ocean to South America. |
| 0:25.8 | We examine how China is dealing with being a global infrastructure lender, especially |
| 0:30.6 | as so many countries are struggling to pay up. |
| 0:35.4 | And is he Miyake knew from a young age that he wanted to be a fashion designer? |
| 0:40.0 | Our obituaries editor looks back on his journey to becoming one, all the while keeping |
| 0:44.6 | a troubling secret about his childhood. |
| 0:55.8 | First up though. |
| 1:03.6 | For five months, a fragile truce had held in Ethiopia. |
| 1:07.9 | The agreement promised relief for millions facing starvation in Tigray, home to the Tigray |
| 1:13.0 | and people's liberation front or TPLF that's been facing off against the government for |
| 1:18.0 | nearly two years. |
| 1:20.1 | That ceasefire though has collapsed. |
| 1:22.1 | We're telling us that the humanitarian situation in northern Ethiopia continues to be alarming. |
| 1:28.5 | There are unconfirmed reports of displacements in front line areas in Amharah and the Afar |
| 1:33.9 | regions. |
| 1:34.9 | Deliveries of humanitarian supplies by road into Tigray have been suspended since last week |
| 1:40.6 | on August 20. |
| 1:41.6 | Eight organizations are struggling to help as the violence ramps back up. |
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