Guardian Focus podcast examines unfolding crisis in Somalia

In this month's Guardian Focus global development podcast, the newspaper "look[s] at the unfolding crisis in the Horn and focus[es] in on Somalia, where conflict and political instability pose steep challenges for short-term relief and long-term development … To discuss these issues, Madeleine Bunting is joined in the studio by Samir Elhawary, research fellow in the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute, David Bull, chief executive of UNICEF U.K., and Jamal Osman, an independent journalist who came to the U.K. from Somalia in 1999 and has been going back and forth ever since," according to the Guardian (Bunting et al., 8/18).