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From Our Own Correspondent: The Return of Lula

03/11/2022

The Return of Lula

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, The Return of Lula

Lula da Silva makes a political comeback in a tightly fought election in Brazil.

A visit to Lula da Silva's heartland in Brazil's north-east after the beat the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a closely fought race on Sunday.

Brazil's left-wing Presidential candidate Lula da Silva made a political comeback this week, narrowly beating the incumbent, Jair  Bolsonaro. In Lula’s victory speech, he promised to tackle hunger, which is affecting more than 33 million people there. Sofia Bettiza travelled to Northeastern Brazil, where many people voted for Lula. 

This week, Lebanon entered unchartered territory with no president, a caretaker cabinet and deeply divided parliament.   And with the Lebanese currency losing around 90 per cent of its value, the country’s citizens have been taken matters into their own hands. More than a dozen banks have been raided this year by customers demanding to take out their own money rather than see their savings diminish further. Leila Molana-Allen spoke to several of those affected by the rapidly falling exchange rate.

In September, clashes erupted along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.  The hostilities marked the most serious escalation since 2020, when they fought a bloody war over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. A tentative ceasefire is now in place. But Gabriel Gavin found increasing numbers of Armenian women signing up to defend the country.

Norway this week put its military on a raised level of alert in response to the war in Ukraine. David Baillie was recently on Norway’s border with Russia where he encountered some young students manning the border posts.

In Senegal, we hear how a certain food staple introduced by the former French colonisers has become a much-loved feature of the diet of the Serer people. Tim Whewell recently went  to seek out the story of how this food item came to be so cherished.

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