The Intelligence: The world’s biggest humanitarian crisis
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Ravaged by a civil war, Sudan could see a nationwide famine by August. With humanitarian aid being blocked on both sides, it is increasingly difficult to get supplies to those who need them the most. How to protect an endangered language (09:01). And, why domestic cats have become an existential threat to Scottish wildcats (14:43).
Additional audio courtesy of the Endangered Language Alliance
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| 1:01.8 | The Economist. |
| 1:09.1 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm your host, Oire Ogunbei. |
| 1:15.3 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:23.5 | Of the 7,000-ish languages that exist across the world, almost half are set to disappear by the end of the century. |
| 1:31.3 | What does it mean for a language to be endangered? |
| 1:34.3 | And is there any hope to protect them before their last fluent speakers die out? |
| 1:40.3 | And, it's not just languages that are under threat. |
| 1:48.8 | Scottish wildcats are getting a little too cosy with the cuter domestic kind, |
| 1:50.6 | and it's messing with the gene pool. |
| 1:53.0 | Faced with a real threat of extinction, |
| 1:57.9 | conservationists hope that reintroducing them back into the wild could help. |
| 2:01.6 | But first. Which country has the world's largest population of internal refugees? The highest number of people facing famine. |
| 2:18.3 | The answer is not as many might assume Gaza or Ukraine. |
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