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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Heart-breaking loss in drought-hit Horn of Africa, record food price alert

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Heart-breaking loss in drought-hit Horn of Africa, record food price alert

FromUN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva


UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Heart-breaking loss in drought-hit Horn of Africa, record food price alert

FromUN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Jun 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Four failed rainy seasons in the Horn of Africa, are tearing families apart –we hear one veteran humanitarian’s heart-breaking testimony from a displacement camp in Somalia.
Climate shocks are also playing their part in undermining vital investment in developing countries, according to trade agency UNCTAD, and we’ll also hear that food prices are going to be increasingly difficult to stomach this year, as millions of people in Sri Lanka – in the midst of its worst crisis since independence - are already finding out. 
Released:
Jun 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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The week’s top news stories, interviews and insight from the United Nations in a 15-minute podcast. With UN Geneva and UN News teams Available every Friday.