On the programme this week: Who's behind the bank robberies hitting #lebanon? A: Ordinary people trying to get hold of their own savings.
Also: 20 ethnic groups, 7 languages & 1 region w/breakaway aspirations. Yet #Senegal is stable -- is humour the key?
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On From Our Own Correspondent we hear the mood in #Kyiv is resolute: “#Ukrainians will, if they have to, return to their bunkers. They will, if asked to, sit in the cold and the dark”.
Plus #Iran, #Thailand & what’s #Russia doing in #Burkina Faso? https://t.co/atkMiFdHfe
@PRX & @GBH’s The World on grim picture in Pakistan and big gap in relief funding. (But last story on the techno rave reconstruction effort in Ukraine is a real uplift). https://t.co/wVW0APjXbY #
The facts and the figures that will frame the world's next few years are laid out here by David Beasley from the #wfp. Good on the reality of migration.
Ukraine and the global food emergency https://t.co/NDaTWIwQl6
It’s happened again. Stuck on an empty plane at Heathrow airport long after everyone else is off - ‘no staff to get my wheelchair off the plane’. I am SO disappointed with @HeathrowAirport as disabled passengers are once again apparently the lowest priority.
An honour to win an Amnesty Award for our report on women being denied the right to go to sec school, and to work across sectors in #Afghanistan.It’s a bittersweet moment. Afghan women have not won - yet. With hope. With @Mahfouzzubaide1@NicolaCareem@Imo_Anderson@sanjayganguly
Wins: #MarineLePen speaking in clear language, relating all back to cost of living, #Emmanuel Macron ultra grasp of economy & policy, & brings up uncomfortable facts for #LePen.
Losses: #LePen visibly confused on policy at times. #Macron smirks, showing arrogance criticised for.