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From Our Own Correspondent

The Sudanese refugees sheltering in Chad

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie introduces correspondents' and writers' stories from the Chad/Sudan border, Hawaii's Maui island, Belize, Portugal and Azerbaijan More than a million people have fled violence in Sudan for relative safety over the border in Chad - but conditions there are harsh, and medical help running desperately short. Mercy Juma spent a week near the refugee camp in Adre hearing stories of what had driven so many from their homes in Darfur. Maui island is still reeling in shock and grief after the wildfires, fanned up by strong winds, which have ripped across it and burned the town of Lahaina to the ground. John Sudworth reflects on the anger and concern - as well as the resilience - he's heard expressed by Hawaiians over their state's emergency response. How can one of the Western Hemisphere's smallest countries, Belize, take care of one of its longest barrier reefs? In a heavily indebted nation of under half a million people that's also highly vulnerable to climate change, NGOs must often step in where the state can't enforce conservation measures. Linda Pressly took took a boat to a speck in the Caribbean called Laughing Bird Caye, to hear of the threats from fishing boats, tourists - and even drug smugglers - in these waters. Portugal's government has drawn up a plan promising the nation "More Housing" - trying to address a runaway property boom and a sense that a decent home is now out of reach for far too many people. But as Alison Roberts explains, rebalancing both rental and buyers' markets will not be easy. And in the cities of Baku and Shusha, Simon Broughton pays close attention to sounds from Azerbaijan's own classical music tradition: the genre called mugha, which mixes delicate instrumentation with poetic vocals, lively improvisation and deep human feeling. Producer: Polly Hope Editor: Bridget Harney Production Co-Ordinator: Gemma Ashman

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts

0:05.2

Today grief, anger and serious questions in the aftermath of the wildfires which have ravaged

0:11.0

Hawaii. How to protect a Caribbean reef from intrusions by poachers, tourists and drug

0:17.4

traffickers. The property market boom which has been a double-edged boost for Portugal.

0:23.8

And how to bring out the last drops of emotion from a musical instrument in Azerbaijan.

0:29.9

It's just like shaking a source bottle, we're told.

0:33.6

First, to the chadi side of the border with Sudan, where many people are still arriving, fleeing

0:39.6

for their lives, the violence in Sudan was triggered in the capital Cartoum in April when

0:45.2

the country's official armed forces and a state-backed paramilitary group began a deadly

0:50.1

struggle for overall power. Since then, the fighting has spread across far wider stretches

0:55.8

of the country, unforced 80% of its hospitals to shut down. More than a million Sudanese

1:02.3

have fled their homeland, many of them with no more than what they can carry. In the Darfur

1:08.2

region of Sudan, the brutality has been particularly intense, and the flow of refugees over its western

1:15.5

border into Chad, particularly heavy. Mercy Juma travelled there to hear their stories.

1:22.8

I wouldn't call myself a coffee connoisseur, but I do enjoy a good cup,

1:27.8

and I thought, at some point, some of the best to round, until I arrived at the camp in

1:33.6

Adry to meet refugees from Sudan. Duck, thick, with a little extra sugar, spiced with ginger

1:41.6

and cardamom, served in a fancy tiny cup with an even fancy saucer. It didn't matter that

1:50.2

it was 40 degrees outside, that Sudanese coffee was exceptional.

1:57.0

Every day, for more than a week, we met the two-hour journey from the town of Fashana,

2:01.2

where we was staying, to Adry on the border of Chad in Sudan. It was a torturous journey,

2:08.1

the terrain was unforgiving. I sought beside our Arabic speaking driver in the front of our

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