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Speaker 1: My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda

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Speaker 1: Bunjelung Calcottin woman from Gadighl country. The Daily oz acknowledges

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Speaker 1: that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the

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Speaker 1: Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and Torres

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Speaker 1: Strait Island and nations. We pay our respects to the

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Speaker 1: first peoples of these countries, both past and present.

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Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Daily os It's Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: the fourteenth of September. I'm Zara, I'm Billy. The uennas

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Speaker 2: warned of a new famine in Somalia, saying, quote, famine

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Speaker 2: is at the door. We're in the last minute of

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Speaker 2: the eleventh hour to prevent a full blown disaster. We'll

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Speaker 2: tell you what you need to know in the deep dive.

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Speaker 2: But first, Billy, what is making headlines this morning?

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Speaker 3: We had to deliver some very disappointing news to our

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Speaker 3: readers yesterday. Zara Row of Meteorology or BOMB has confirmed

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Speaker 3: that Leninna will return this summer for the third consecutive.

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Speaker 2: Year, a third installment.

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Speaker 3: Leninya is a complex weather pattern that leads to wetter

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Speaker 3: conditions across the East and north of the country. In

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Speaker 3: a statement on Tuesday, the Bomb said that climate change

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Speaker 3: quote continues to influence Australian and global climate.

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Speaker 2: The Star has been found to be unsuitable to hold

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Speaker 2: a casino license in New South Wales, and that follows

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Speaker 2: a report conducted by the state's Independent Casino Commission. The

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Speaker 2: report found that vast sums of money were laundered through

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Speaker 2: the casino and that patrons were allowed to gamble for

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Speaker 2: over twenty four hours without intervention. Now the Star will

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Speaker 2: have a formal opportunity to respond.

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Speaker 3: Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelenski has said that his military has

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Speaker 3: taken back more than six thousand square kilometers of land

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Speaker 3: since the start of September. In his address on Monday,

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Speaker 3: Zelenski said that territory gains have been made in the

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Speaker 3: east and south of Ukraine and that quote the movement

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Speaker 3: of our troops continues.

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Speaker 2: And today's good news. Australian actor Murray Bartlett has won

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Speaker 2: the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Anthology,

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Speaker 2: Series or Movie. He was among two other Aussies, Tony

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Speaker 2: Collette and Sarah Snook nominated for an Emmy this year.

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Speaker 3: The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis unfolding

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Speaker 3: in Somalia. They've said that famine is an imminent reality

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Speaker 3: unless immediate action is taken, and that it's a race

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Speaker 3: against time. Zara. Should we start by defining what a

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Speaker 3: famine actually is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So the UN uses something called the Integrated Food

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Speaker 2: Security Phase Classification or the IPC for short, to actually

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Speaker 2: define what a famine is. So, according to the IPC,

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Speaker 2: there are a few things that categorize a famine. An

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Speaker 2: area is in famine when twenty percent of households are

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Speaker 2: facing an extreme lack of food and thirty percent of

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Speaker 2: children are suffering from acute malnutrition. Famine is also indicated

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Speaker 2: when the deaths of two adults or four children for

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Speaker 2: every ten thousand deaths are being caused by outright starvation

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Speaker 2: or malnutrition and disease every single day.

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Speaker 3: Right, So, based on that classification system that you've just outlined,

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Speaker 3: how close is Somalia to being in famine?

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Speaker 2: Well, the IPC currently classifies two districts in Somalia's Bay

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Speaker 2: Region which are seen as vulnerable by the UN as

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Speaker 2: emergency areas. They've projected that both of these districts will

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Speaker 2: be in famine by December of this year.

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Speaker 3: Right, so it sounds like they're pretty close to being

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Speaker 3: declared in famine. Do we know what's caused this latest crisis?

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Speaker 2: There are a few contributing factors. One is the ongoing

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Speaker 2: drought due to four consecutive years of below average rainy seasons,

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Speaker 2: and there's also another poor rainy season expected for this

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Speaker 2: year as well. This has caused poor harvests and livestock deaths,

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Speaker 2: and because of that, food prices have increased. On top

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Speaker 2: of that, prices have continued to rise in Somalia like

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Speaker 2: and as well as that, it's also been really hard

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Speaker 3: Now, this isn't the first time Somalia has experienced famine.

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Speaker 3: What can you tell us about the last time an

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Speaker 2: No matter how many times I read this stat it

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Speaker 2: continues to just be an absolutely shocking number. But here

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Speaker 2: we are. Eleven years ago, Somalia experienced a famine that

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Speaker 2: killed more than two hundred and fifty thousand people. From

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Speaker 2: the famine actually found that this extremely high death toll

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Speaker 2: initial warnings of the impending crisis. By the time that

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Speaker 2: the UN's funding appeal goal for Somalia had been met

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Speaker 2: they need one point five billion US dollars.

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Speaker 3: Right, so where are we at in getting to that figure.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's about sixty eight percent funded so far, but

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Speaker 2: about four hundred and sixty million dollars is still required

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Speaker 2: to reach that one point five billion. On Monday, an

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Speaker 2: open statement from the Somali NGO Consortium, which is a

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Speaker 2: group of non government organizations, said that more donors and

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Speaker 2: humanitarian stakeholders were needed to address the unfolding situation. And

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Speaker 2: in this letter, the consortium said that about seven hundred

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Speaker 2: centers up to July this year. And just consider that

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Speaker 2: this is before they're expecting the worst to hit they've

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Speaker 2: said that young children and women, particularly those who are

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Speaker 3: When we posted this on our Instagram, we were flooded

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Speaker 3: with comments and dms from people asking us how they

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Speaker 3: could help, So we do want to add that if

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Speaker 3: you want to contribute to the UN Somalia Humanitarian Fund,

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Speaker 3: we're going to put the link in our show notes.

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Speaker 3: These types of episodes are always the hardest to do,

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Speaker 3: but we know they're important, so thanks for sticking with us.

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Speaker 3: We'll be back again tomorrow, but until then, have a

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Speaker 3: great Wednesday.