Northeast Africa
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Oct 27, 2026
Jack WolfsonGUEST
I think there is some value to that, but I also wanna reiterate that our ancestors came from the equator.
Jack WolfsonGUEST
They came from the Northeast Valley Rift in Northeast Africa.
Jack WolfsonGUEST
And there, anthropology tells us that they were omnivores and that they were not likely in ketosis, although for periods of starvation.
Jack WolfsonGUEST
That's kind of how I would look at it.
Rajini VaidyanathanHOST
And we'll have more on that in a moment.
Rajini VaidyanathanHOST
Well, the Northeast African nation's been locked in a civil war since twenty twenty-three, the Sudanese army fighting a powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces, the RSF.
Rajini VaidyanathanHOST
The conflict's already created one of the world's largest humanitarian crises.
Rajini VaidyanathanHOST
And in the last few days alone, hundreds of civilians have been killed by drones in Sudan.
Veronica DudoHOST
Starvation in Sudan.
Veronica DudoHOST
The Northeast African nation is facing a failed harvest.
Veronica DudoHOST
Now the United Nations is addressing the issue.
Veronica DudoHOST
Plus, she's on a mission.
17 MINS LATER
Veronica DudoHOST
DHS says an update will be provided, quote, at the appropriate time.
Veronica DudoHOST
The United Nations opens meetings today in an effort to bring peace and stability to Sudan.
Veronica DudoHOST
This is the sixth consecutive year the United Nations has addressed the issues in the Northeast African nation.
Veronica DudoHOST
And amid the deadly years-long civil war, Sudan now also faces a failed harvest and famine.
Sharmine NarwaniPANELIST
I have to say, this is the most honest thing that we have seen from Netanyahu ever.
Sharmine NarwaniPANELIST
And I take some pride in this because the cradle has been writing about these alliances, specifically the ones that aren't written about very much in Northeast Africa and the Horn of Africa.
Sharmine NarwaniPANELIST
We were talking about the fact that the West Asian conflict had spilled in heavily into the Horn of Africa and beyond.
Sharmine NarwaniPANELIST
And that, I mean, we've written about this, Ethiopia's with Israel.
Joana P. R. NevesGUEST
This man is really interesting because he was an Armenian man.
Joana P. R. NevesGUEST
person who came to the uk to study at king's college and by the turn of the century he was doing all the petrol so the oil deals for france england lots of countries turkey and so he basically established the oil um companies across Europe and, you know, Northeast Africa.
Joana P. R. NevesGUEST
And because he was such a savvy businessman, he is called actually Mr. 5%.
Joana P. R. NevesGUEST
And Mr. 5% just means that he has a stake in all the companies of 5%.
Lindsay DolanCORRESPONDENT
And then you've not just got male farmers, but now there's a nice fifty-fifty balance of male, female farmers.
Liam WhiteCORRESPONDENT
Do you feel that people in Ireland are fully aware of what's actually going on across the likes of Somaliland or other parts of North Eastern Africa?
Lindsay DolanCORRESPONDENT
I don't think so.
Lindsay DolanCORRESPONDENT
Um, I think people in Ireland are more worried about themselves than what's happening when it comes to food distribution and other things around the world.
Abdul Qayyum RashidHOST
Egyptian mathematicians worked principles of geometry that later Greek scholars traveled to Egypt to learn.
Abdul Qayyum RashidHOST
For fourteen hundred years, Kush was one of the great powers of the North Eastern Africa.
Abdul Qayyum RashidHOST
It mastered ironworking at a scale that made them formidable in a war and advanced in agriculture.
Abdul Qayyum RashidHOST
We can go on about so many of the African, um, uh, uh, rulers and dynasties.