13 September 2023
Episode 3108
34 minutes
We ask whether the fallout from flooding in Libya was preventable, with Monocle’s North Africa correspondent, Mary Fitzgerald, and environmental policy consultant Malak Tayeb. Also in the programme: economist Vicky Pryce discusses the Qantas ruling in Australia, we hear the latest instalment in a weeklong series of audio diaries from Morocco and look ahead to London’s Ukraine Film Festival 2023 with curator Olga Sidorushkina.
13 September 2023
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Libya’s deadly floods
Monocle’s North Africa correspondent, Mary Fitzgerald, and environmental policy consultant Malak Tayeb discuss the failures of leadership in Libya to invest in climate-proof infrastructure and whether the fallout could have been prevented.
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