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Weekend: Severe shortages in Nagorno-Karabakh

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Severe shortages in Nagorno-Karabakh

23/09/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Severe shortages in Nagorno-Karabakh

A journalist in the region claims people in the enclave are ‘literally starving’

Journalist Siranush Sargsyan, who lives in the enclave’s de facto capital Stepanakert, claims that shortages of food, power and medicine have created a humanitarian crisis in the city in the wake of the ceasefire between Azerbaijan and separatist authorities. Azerbaijan says it is sending aid to the region. 

Also on the programme: US Senator Bob Menendez is charged with taking bribes from the Egyptian government, some in the form of exercise equipment and air purifiers; and Canada doubles down on its claims that Indian government agents were involved in the murder of a Canadian Sikh activist. 

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss all this and more are barrister, journalist and author Sadakat Kadri and Lina Khatib, Professor of Politics and International Studies at SOAS.

(IMAGE: Civilians taking cover in a shelter following the Azeri military operation in Stepanakert. CREDIT: ARTSAKH/NAGORNO-KARABAKH HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN/HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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