The Intelligence: eyewitness to slaughter in Sudan
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Our correspondent speaks with the Africa head of the Red Cross who has borne witness to the war, famine and genocide that continue—unrelenting and largely ignored—in Sudan. As Ukraine’s men are sent off to war, the country’s women are upending its labour market; we meet some newly minted miners (10:07). And how the age at which careers peak is changing (18:34).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm currently out of office. |
| 0:04.4 | An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break. |
| 0:14.4 | So I've gone to Barbados for a month for science. Yours, Toby. Take your holiday as seriously as British |
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| 1:00.7 | The Economist. Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:11.3 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:12.5 | And I'm Oire Ogunbe. |
| 1:14.4 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:21.9 | With so many of Ukraine's men drawn into the country's war, the labor market is changing fast. |
| 1:28.1 | Women are starting more businesses and taking more jobs in industry and construction. |
| 1:33.1 | We visit a mine in eastern Ukraine and speak to some of them. |
| 1:37.8 | And, at the fine age of 26, I'd really like to hope that I haven't reached the peak of my career. |
| 1:45.7 | Our correspondent has crunched some data to reassure me. |
| 1:59.2 | First up, though. |
| 2:13.7 | With all that's going on in Gaza, this war might have fallen off your radar, but it's big, |
| 2:18.3 | it's bloody, and there's a lot at stake. I'm talking about the war in Sudan. |
| 2:20.3 | Last month, our correspondent brought us horrifying stories from a refugee camp just across the border in Chad. |
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