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From Our Own Correspondent

The Battle for Ethiopia

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie presents reporters' despatches from Ethiopia, the Cop26 climate summit, Switzerland, Georgia and Brazil.

The conflict in Ethiopia has left the country's northern Tigray region largely cut off, with millions facing starvation. Among the many combatants now on manoeuvres are the “Oromo Liberation Army” – the Oromo being a people who live mostly in the centre and south of the country. Catherine Byaruhanga was given a rare invitation to meet them.

Ethiopia is one of the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change - the subject of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. Among those attending were the BBC’s David Shukman, a veteran of ten previous Cops, and someone who has watched at close hand the long battle to see the dangers of climate change.

The ski industry is already preparing for warmer temperatures, with predictions that the snow at many resorts will regularly melt, or never form in the first place. So what can these resorts do to stay in business? Simon Mills reports from Switzerland.

After former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was smuggled back into the country, and then chucked in prison, he went on a hunger strike leading to protests in the street. What exactly is happening is still unclear, but then Rayhan Demytrie says that when it comes to Saakashvili, it has always been hard to separate myth from reality.

The pandemic meant that Sao Paulo's bars and restaurants were forced to shut – and yet there was one kind of food outlet which was permitted to say open, deemed an essential part of Brazilian life. They are called lanchonetes, local eateries with a tradition going back more than a hundred years. Andrew Downie explains why he is a lanchonete fan.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:05.3

Good morning.

0:06.5

As the COP summit on climate change reaches its conclusion,

0:10.6

a veteran of these attempts to get agreement on CO2 emissions

0:14.1

asks whether this one has achieved any more than the others.

0:18.4

We hear from Switzerland where the ski industry is already

0:21.8

making plans for a warmer planet,

0:24.2

and a time when much of the snow will have melted.

0:27.6

Georgia has had protesters out on the streets,

0:30.9

supporting a hunger strike by one of the country's ex-prime ministers.

0:35.4

And we hear about the lanternity,

0:37.9

a kind of Brazilian cafe so loved by customers

0:41.4

that were declared an essential service.

0:44.8

First, a former president of Ethiopia once claimed

0:48.2

that other African leaders were jealous of his country.

0:52.2

Perhaps a touch bragging, but there's many a visitor to Ethiopia

0:56.6

who would share this positive view.

0:59.1

There's a spectacular landscape to admire,

1:01.9

or at a more human level, the distinctive Ethiopian cuisine,

1:06.0

which has spread abroad.

1:07.8

World audiences have long marveled at the distinctive jazz music,

1:12.3

and the country has a thriving literary and art scene as well.

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