The Kindness of a Baker
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Insight, storytelling, colour. Today, there's endless bread but not much comfort as Nigerian children find shelter in a bakery from the extremists of Boko Haram. India's accused of involvement in disturbances just over the border in Nepal - people have died in clashes with the security forces and cross-border commerce has been hard hit. The amount of violence in eastern Ukraine has gone down, but there are other problems for the government in Kiev: the economy's in deep trouble and frustrated ultra-nationalists are making their presence felt. Voodoo's coming under attack on the island of Haiti in the Caribbean - one senior Roman Catholic churchman's called it 'magic'. And there's a visit to the 'alternative' American city of Portland, Oregon. It's certainly a place of beards and tattoos but is it falling victim to creeping provincialism?
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| 0:00.0 | You have downloaded from our own correspondent. |
| 0:02.6 | This edition is the latest one broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:06.4 | And here to introduce it is Kate Adi. |
| 0:08.8 | Hello. |
| 0:09.8 | In this edition, Sanctuary in a Bakery for some of the children who fled the fighting against |
| 0:15.2 | Boko Haram in Nigeria. |
| 0:18.0 | India is accused of bullying and meddling as violent protests continue in neighbouring Nepal. |
| 0:23.6 | Voodoo's under fire on the Caribbean island of Haiti |
| 0:27.0 | and music is the weapon of choice. |
| 0:29.6 | And it's been called the place where young people come to retire but is Portland about to lose |
| 0:35.4 | its title as America's weirdest city? Nigeria is winning the war against the |
| 0:42.0 | Islamist militants of Boca Haram. |
| 0:44.0 | At least that's what a government spokesman was claiming at the United Nations this week. |
| 0:49.0 | Not everyone at home believes it. |
| 0:51.0 | More than 2 million Nigerians have been displaced during |
| 0:54.3 | four years of fighting. Fewer than 10% of the internally displaced people, |
| 0:59.2 | IDPs as they're known, have found places in official government camps. |
| 1:04.0 | Most rely on friends, families or virtual strangers, |
| 1:08.0 | as Katerina Vitotsi has been finding out in the city of Maidugari. |
| 1:12.0 | Have you heard about the Baker and the IDPs? |
| 1:16.0 | I thought it was the start of a bad joke when my Nigerian friend asked me that. |
| 1:20.0 | We were having a drink in a hotel in my doagery, Boko Haram's former stronghold. |
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