The third horseman: famine stalks Somalia
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The Economist
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🗓️ 29 August 2022
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Our correspondent reports from Somalia, which stands on the brink of famine thanks to a drought, soaring food costs and infrastructure destroyed by decades of fighting. Old Hollywood studios are waging an epic battle against their upstart streaming rivals. And why London’s cemeteries are selling used graves.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:06.7 | In New York, I'm John Fassman. |
| 0:09.2 | And in London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:11.4 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:18.6 | During the pandemic, when crowds were scary in the world was on its couch, old Hollywood |
| 0:23.6 | lost ground to its upstart streaming rivals. |
| 0:26.6 | The legacy studios have been mounted to come back, get ready for a good old fashioned ratings |
| 0:31.4 | battle. |
| 0:33.5 | And recycling has been all the rage for some time, but now it's come for cemetery plots. |
| 0:40.0 | We visit a famous London graveyard whose inhabitants, if they could, would be worried about |
| 0:45.1 | new neighbors piling in. |
| 0:55.9 | We'll see you next time. |
| 1:04.8 | Somalia is caught in a terrible moment. |
| 1:12.6 | Last week, the country's president Hassan Sheikh Muhammad spoke after a deadly terror attack |
| 1:18.4 | at a hotel in Mogadishu, the country's capital killed at least 20 people. |
| 1:24.3 | The problem is a perennial problem for Somalia, and the jihadists who control vast swathes |
| 1:28.7 | of the country have once again struck in the capital. |
| 1:31.8 | But it's not the only crisis facing the country right now. |
| 1:34.4 | Although you've got this monsoon flow, there's not much rain forecast now in Somalia or Kenya |
| 1:39.4 | or Tanzania. |
| 1:40.4 | In the EU, there has been a hint of a few showers to the south. |
| 1:44.0 | In fact, this rain belt moving up into Somalia might be good news for the whole of Africa, |
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