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Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

For 16 years, the Darfur region in Western Sudan has been the site of horrific crimes

against humanity. Our correspondent went to see the transition of power now underway as the country

is offered a chance for peace.

And we take a look at efforts to help immigrants into the labor market. Many want to rebuild their

lives by starting businesses, and they find niches that natives overlook. But to be able to do that,

authorities have to let them work. Throughout the autumn, people in France have expressed concern about proposed sweeping changes to the pension system.

Today, they're taking to the streets in a massive rolling general strike.

Well, there is expected to be a very big turnout today with the strikes, and probably, you know, the biggest that we've seen here, certainly all year in France.

Sophie Petter is the economist's Paris Bureau Chief.

The SNCF, the railways, has already said that one in ten trains will be working, which means a massive participation rate.

It's not just trains.

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