Gareth Browne
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136 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Aug
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And it's every corner of life.
There are places you go where the bridges over rivers have been destroyed.
So you have to get on small barges and the telecoms network is patchy.
Water, energy, people can't heat their homes in the winter.
They don't have electricity throughout the day and night.
They can't run a refrigerator.
So this is like a holistic demand to rebuild almost from scratch a country, its infrastructure and its institutions.
It can happen.
And I think there's two strategies.
From the government, you see this top-down approach of pursuing big investment deals from foreign partners, the Gulf, Europe, America.
And then you also have this grassroots approach.
Almost two million Syrians have returned to Syria in the last 18 months.
and some of them have been in places like Turkey, Germany, even Britain, and they're taking back money.
And thanks to them, there's some small-scale reconstruction that is actually happening.
People go back to a village and they give $5,000 or $10,000 to rebuild the school or a mosque or a small medical clinic.
But these two things seem a bit disjointed.
This is where Ahmed al-Sharra, this new president, former al-Qaeda militants,
Interesting, unique, bizarre relationship with President Donald Trump is really something that many Syrians are betting on with the backing of the White House, the administration, that international firms can be comfortable and confident in coming to Syria and helping rebuild whatever part of the country it is.
I think that knocks confidence.
I mean, people do need to be reminded that this is still a very unstable country with security threats wherever you look.
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