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🗓️ 19 August 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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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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