Barbara Plett-Usher
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155 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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It didn't sound that way from what they were saying. One of the doctors there said, I think in general, there's been a declining interest in the humanitarian situations in Somalia. He said, basically, we're seeing now that humanitarian funding is not so much based on the needs, but mostly linked with the political decisions. He didn't elaborate what he meant by that. But I think that that was part of the general pullback of humanitarian funding. I mean, generally in the world, but also particularly in Somalia. But I felt the general sense of it was that there wasn't
As you mentioned, the Iranians have begun to retaliate for the U.S.
strikes.
They have targeted U.S.
assets in Jordan and Kuwait.
Both of those countries say they have been intercepting incoming fire.
There's also been reports from Bahrain that air raid sirens have gone off.
off there.
So that seems to be what the Iranians are focusing on.
Again, retaliating for the U.S.
strikes overnight, which were, the Americans say, aimed at trying to degrade Iran's ability to attack international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
All of this triggered from attacks on ships that began last week.
And so this is now the fourth round of retaliatory strikes.
The
about what was hit in the country.
They said there were targets in the south and west.
They did say one person was killed and four injured.
But the Americans have said they've been targeting things like radar stations and drone and missile sites and so on.
But that has not so far prevented the Iranians from being able to, from time to time, fire at the ships in the strait.
It's beginning to look a little bit more permanent, if you can put it that way.
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