The Globalist Podcast, Thursday, August 10: West African leaders meet in Abuja after the military junta in Niger refuses to reinstate the country’s president, Mohamed Bazoum.
Plus: political uncertainty in Thailand shakes investor confidence, culture news and a Canadian breed of cow that could help cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
The Globalist Podcast, Wednesday, August 9 2023: Is Belarus’s Lukashenko aggravating Poland without direction from Putin?
Also in the programme: we discuss why India is banning makers of military drones from using Chinese parts, get the latest from France’s bubbling wine harvest and flick through the day’s papers.
The Globalist Podcast, Tuesday, August 8 2023: Monocle’s US editor, Christopher Lord, examines what is behind the US’s summer of strikes.
Also in the programme: we discuss a foiled assassination plot in Ukraine; Tomohiko Taniguchi, former special advisor to the cabinet of Shinzo Abe, joins us to discuss the Iran-Japan talks; and the latest news from the Baltics and Scandinavia. Plus, the search for a mythical monster intensifies in Loch Ness.
The Globalist Podcast, Thursday, August 3 2023: ECOWAS demands that the leaders of Niger’s coup cede power by this Sunday – but does it have enough leverage? Also in the programme: We discuss Poland’s ever-increasing role in the Russia-Ukraine War, find out about Eurostar’s newest rival and flick through the day’s papers.
The Globalist Podcast, Monday, July 31, 2023: We discuss the fate of Niger as experts fear that the situation could exacerbate regional instability.
Plus: the latest charges against Donald Trump, Brazil’s ambitious green transition package and a roundup of Asia-Pacific stories.
The Globalist Podcast, Thursday, July 27, 2023: The Russia-Africa summit begins in St Petersburg. Also, Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Sen, announces his resignation and the country’s first new leader since 1985.
Plus, a check-in from the Women’s World Cup and a flick through the day’s papers.
Generations of travelers have stood before the “ksars” of Djado, wandering their crenellated walls, watchtowers, secretive passages and wells, all of them testifying to a skilled but unknown hand.
The now ruined city Djado is located on the southern end of the Djado Pleateau in the Sahara in northern Niger. It is not clear who built the complex of fortified mud buildings (ksars). The city was a part Trans-Saharan trading network of the Kanuri people whose Kanem-Bornu Empire was founded before 1000 CE and at its greater extent covered what is now Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, southern Lybia and Eastern Niger.
It is not clear what caused the abandonment of the city after the 1860s: increased desertification, conflict or even a mosquito infestation have been proposed as possible causes. Since then it has been used by Toubou nomads for the cultivation of dates. The site also contains rock drawings and carvings from 12,000 to 6,000 BCE, depicting the fauna that roved the prehistoric Sahara. The Djado Plateau was added to the UNESCO Tenative List in 2006.
Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria to the south, Benin and Burkina Faso to the southwest, Mali to the west, and Algeria to the northwest.
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