Thursday, February 15, 2024

On the scene at the farmers’ protest in India

Tens of thousands of farmers in India are attempting to march to the country’s capital, New Delhi, to demand guaranteed crop prices. They’ve been stopped at the border between the Punjab and Haryana provinces by police, who have used tear gas and detained some protesters who tried to break barricades. CBC’s Salimah Shivji reports from the protest.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/on-the-scene-at-the-farmers-protest-in-india-1.7116996?cmp=rss

The world has turned its back on Sudan as catastrophic war rages on, says aid worker

An old man sits in a makeshift tent with a young man.

Jan Egeland says the stories he’s heard from refugees of the war in Sudan left him "utterly shaken." And yet, the humanitarian worker says nobody seems to care.



source https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/nrc-sudan-1.7116487?cmp=rss