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[00:00:03] of of of
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[00:00:09] You're of watching TRT World, I'm Yashini Padiachi with the reminder of
[00:00:13] our main headlines. At least 12 people have been killed and more than
[00:00:17] 300 injured an attack on the King Khalid International Airport
[00:00:21] in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia
[00:00:23] of is blaming the ansara huti group in neighboring Yemen. They've been launching
[00:00:27] attacks on Riyad in recent weeks, but to claim
[00:00:31] of responsibility for this strike.
[00:00:32] of Pakistan's prime minister Shahbas Sharif would joined Turkia in signing the
[00:00:36] Mecca defense pact in August, is calling it a heinous
[00:00:40] attack. Donald Trump is weighing up a US
[00:00:44] a response.
[00:00:45] I think it's terrible. Well you're going to find out,
[00:00:48] see, but I think it's
[00:00:50] terrible.
[00:00:55] in Well, they're able to defend. Look, the Saudis are good fighters, but I
[00:00:59] think the attack was... terrible thing. The US
[00:01:02] president also says it's time for Ukraine to get new leader, following
[00:01:06] criticism from his Ukrainian
[00:01:08] in counterpart a US diesel deal with Russia.
[00:01:11] Vladimir Zelensky has called the move weak and warned it will only
[00:01:15] help Russia's war. The deal is expected to lead to the
[00:01:19] immediate
[00:01:20] of release of more than 300 thousand tons of Russian diesel with more to
[00:01:24] come in the months ahead. In India, a court
[00:01:28] has released three cockroach juntter. party leaders after protests
[00:01:31] erupted in the capital. They were arrested on Saturday along with
[00:01:35] thousands of others, but took to the streets, calling for the resignation
[00:01:39] of the country's election chief. They accuse him of
[00:01:42] sideespping rules and regulations and making changes to the
[00:01:46] voter registration process. More than 30,000 police
[00:01:50] members have been deployed in New
[00:01:51] Delhi.
[00:02:08] The news continues the on TRT world after Africa
[00:02:10] Matters.
[00:02:34] of Welcome everyone, I'm Grace Kurakanja and this
[00:02:38] is Africa Matters, conflict in the Middle East has already
[00:02:42] disrupted global trade, now the resurgents of
[00:02:45] Somali piracy is raising fresh concerns
[00:02:49] of about security in the Gulf of Aden and the Western Indian
[00:02:52] Ocean. What is return mean for regional and
[00:02:56] of international maritime security?
[00:03:04] now
[00:03:05] of 2026 has brought major disruptions to global
[00:03:08] shipping with around 20%
[00:03:11] of the world's oil
[00:03:12] of passing through the straight of hormos before the US war on
[00:03:15] Iran. Ansera Houti attacks in Yemen have disrupted
[00:03:19] traffic through the Bab Almandab straight, vital
[00:03:23] shipping
[00:03:23] of corridor that carries roughly 15% of global seaborn
[00:03:27] trade, and our piracy is surfacing in the gulf of
[00:03:31] Aiden, the critical shipping corridor that's between Yemen,
[00:03:35] Djibuti and Somalia. The road connects Europe and
[00:03:39] Asia through the Swez canal, further disruption could raise
[00:03:42] freight, insurance and fuel costs affecting consumers
[00:03:46] worldwide and
[00:03:47] of increasing risks for sea
[00:03:50] of fairers. The shipping should not be used as collateral in the geopolitical
[00:03:54] of conflict, that we need to protect the shipping and the sea ferters, otherwise
[00:03:58] the negative effects are going to be filled. that everyone around the world,
[00:04:01] regardless if the countries are or not
[00:04:04] of involved
[00:04:04] in the conflicts, when it comes to time security,
[00:04:07] of i would say that it's the situation is is not getting better,
[00:04:11] that's why we
[00:04:12] of should have better coordination between the member
[00:04:15] of state and also at the same time better information sharing, because
[00:04:19] now is the monsoon for example, which is the sea condition
[00:04:23] are are rough and we have 97 hostage in somalia since
[00:04:26] april on piracy and we have six vessel also being held. in
[00:04:30] Somalia uh some
[00:04:31] of them like two two three days ago and some since April so and this is
[00:04:35] during the monsoon so October November this will be
[00:04:39] more actually uh the peak season because currently all the
[00:04:43] international forces maritime forces are distracted in in the in different
[00:04:47] maritime conflicts now the international maritime
[00:04:50] organization has recorded at least 15 paracy
[00:04:54] incidents
[00:04:55] of the Horn of Africa this year including eight in the Gulf of
[00:04:58] Aiden one
[00:04:59] of them Most notable was the August hijacking
[00:05:02] of the Cameron Flugged MV Lutuff which was later released, now in
[00:05:06] April, about 30 pirates attack the MT a
[00:05:09] 25 as it carried 18,000 500 barrels of
[00:05:13] oil to Morgadishu, five the 17 crew
[00:05:17] members taken hostage were killed. Mohon maaf
[00:05:21] sebesar-besarnya. I sincerely apologize to the
[00:05:24] families of my five diseased crew members. I couldn't
[00:05:28] keep my promise to bring all my crew members back safely.
[00:05:32] I'm deeply sorry. Now
[00:05:36] several factors are behind the researgeants. Naval
[00:05:40] forces once assigned to counter piracy. have been diverted to the
[00:05:44] red sea and the street of hormos, thus reducing patrols off the
[00:05:48] Somali coast, higher oil prices have also increased the
[00:05:51] potential rewards for hijacking, meanwhile aid cuts, illegal
[00:05:55] fishing, insecurity and political instability are
[00:05:59] deeppening economic headship, pushing up the cost of food,
[00:06:03] fuel and fertilizer, so while concerning, the
[00:06:06] recent increase attacks remains well below the peak of Somalia's
[00:06:10] paristic crisis, according to world bank data, somali pirates
[00:06:14] carried out more than 1000 attacks between 2005
[00:06:18] and 2012, hijacking 218 vessels
[00:06:22] and taking more than 3,700 sailors
[00:06:25] hostage. ransom payments were and remain
[00:06:29] a key incentive for piracy. at the height the
[00:06:32] crisis, ship owners paid an estimated 50
[00:06:36] million US dollars in ransoms each year, while the
[00:06:39] wider economic cost of somile piracy. as much as
[00:06:43] $18 billion dollars annually. All
[00:06:47] right, let's hear more from Richard Ororun Tobba, he's an associate professor of
[00:06:51] supply chain management, an international trade at Cartoon
[00:06:55] University. He joins me from path in Australia.
[00:06:58] Thank you very much, Mr. Richard for making the time for this
[00:07:01] conversation. I want to start with the gulf of Aiden, how
[00:07:05] strategically important is it right now, given the
[00:07:09] wider maritime disruptions caused by the conflicts in the...
[00:07:12] east, it remains very
[00:07:15] important, uh, lot of traffic, maritime
[00:07:19] traffic passes through the red sea and the
[00:07:23] passes right into the Mediterranean,
[00:07:27] so it remains a strategic water way, it
[00:07:30] also links the Mediterranean
[00:07:34] and the Indian oceans, so it's very, very
[00:07:38] important for maritime traffic. All
[00:07:41] right, now... these piracy attacks that we're seeing, we're talking
[00:07:45] about 15 them, according to the international maritime
[00:07:48] organization just this year, are we seeing isolated
[00:07:51] incidents or are these signs of sustained
[00:07:55] researgeance? just how serious is this
[00:07:57] threat? i think
[00:08:01] it's it's right, it's reason, if
[00:08:05] you remember several years ago there were
[00:08:08] serious narval patrols and the rates of
[00:08:12] piracy actually dropped, but
[00:08:16] this year since April, the rate of
[00:08:19] piracy has increased compared to the previous
[00:08:23] few years and for from my
[00:08:27] perspective, I believe the instability in the
[00:08:30] region may be feeding
[00:08:33] into these rise in the rates
[00:08:37] of pirate attacks, there is lot of
[00:08:40] instability in the region, we've got the yemen
[00:08:44] crisis, we also have the the crisis
[00:08:48] in Ethiopia and Eritrea, we also
[00:08:51] have the crisis in Somalia and the
[00:08:54] Somaliland, the tensions
[00:08:58] there, so all these put together, it
[00:09:02] seems some the instability inland is
[00:09:05] beginning to to spread on onto the
[00:09:08] maritime coast, right, and like you said
[00:09:12] that the crisis in the 2000s was caused through a
[00:09:15] combination of multilateral naval missions. now most
[00:09:19] these vessels have been redeployed to the red sea to the straight
[00:09:23] of hormos because the conflicts that we currently have. can we afford
[00:09:27] to have that kind of multilateral naval missions
[00:09:31] now to secure the gulf of
[00:09:32] Aiden? oh yes,
[00:09:36] I think
[00:09:37] the the capabilities are there by the major powers
[00:09:41] to redeploy those nav vessels back to the gulf
[00:09:45] of Eden and and and the red sea, so I believe those
[00:09:49] capabilities are are there, they just need policy
[00:09:53] makers just need to be aware that the rates
[00:09:56] of piracy seems to be increasing
[00:09:59] significantly, so are you saying they're not
[00:10:02] aware,
[00:10:06] well it may not be a priority at the
[00:10:10] moment,
[00:10:11] you know there are... separate different levels of
[00:10:14] prioritization, so if the media
[00:10:18] like yourselves can make them you know
[00:10:22] more aware a high level. if you can
[00:10:26] show some the impacts on trade
[00:10:29] and other repercussions these rise in
[00:10:33] the pirate attacks then it will become a top
[00:10:36] priority. all right, let's talk more about Somalia because
[00:10:40] conditions on land that helped fuel the piracy
[00:10:43] attacks 15 years ago in the early 2000s they still remain. i'm talking
[00:10:47] about insecurity, political instability, illegal fishing, they're
[00:10:51] still there. so how do we deal with that now with those?
[00:10:55] being some the main or the core driving factors these piracy
[00:10:58] attacks? i think the key thing
[00:11:02] is economic growth, economic development, people
[00:11:06] need jobs, people need job
[00:11:09] security, people need livelihoods
[00:11:12] and people need stability, economic
[00:11:15] stability, so for the long term i'll
[00:11:19] suggest investments i'll
[00:11:22] suggest trade.
[00:11:25] I would suggest education, these are the things that
[00:11:28] contribute to long-term stability and peace and
[00:11:32] development any country. Right, and as we wind up, I want to
[00:11:36] pick up on something you mentioned earlier, the um conflicts that we're
[00:11:40] witnessing on the African continent, so could this
[00:11:43] renewed piracy intersect with other security challenges in the horn of
[00:11:47] Africa, for instance, including terrorism, trafficking and regional
[00:11:51] instability. Yes, yes.
[00:11:55] there is actually very the the lines are
[00:11:58] blowed between those those things you you have mentioned that
[00:12:02] that short least so yeah this school
[00:12:06] all mix up in my view there is actually no clear
[00:12:10] cut silos you cannot separate terrorism
[00:12:13] from all the
[00:12:16] instability and all the various goings
[00:12:19] on in the region as
[00:12:22] I said earlier these things spell over there are
[00:12:26] crossovers and you can't put them in neat
[00:12:30] boundaries and neat silos, they have to be
[00:12:33] addressed together. all right, mr. richard
[00:12:37] olorun the associate professor of supplane supply chain
[00:12:41] management and international trade cart in university. thank you very much sir for your
[00:12:45] time and valuable contribution. still to come
[00:12:48] here on africa matters. i
[00:13:06] where hartum central streets are slowly beginning to show signs
[00:13:10] of life again after a long period of silence
[00:13:13] in one the capital's historic markets traders are trying to return
[00:13:17] to the routines they once knew, even as the effects the
[00:13:21] war remain all around them, Abdalla Hussein reports from her.
[00:13:28] Like elsewhere in Sudan, the war hasn't been kind to central
[00:13:31] Chartum and its markets which once teamed with
[00:13:35] activity, like sugal afranji or afranji
[00:13:38] market here on aljam street. Now amid the
[00:13:42] destruction, some are trying to bring back a little of
[00:13:46] what was lost. Muhammad is one the market's long
[00:13:50] time traders. After more than 50 years among these
[00:13:53] shops, the war. forced him to leave, he returned
[00:13:57] after a long absence to find that the destruction had
[00:14:00] reached everything, even his own
[00:14:03] shops, no one here escaped the damage, when
[00:14:07] the war broke out, no one could come to take anything from their shop, the fighting
[00:14:11] was right beside us, perhaps people in other areas managed to do that,
[00:14:15] but here we were affected an extraordinary way, the scale the
[00:14:19] destruction is immense and so is the
[00:14:21] loss, i had three shops, couldn't take
[00:14:25] out a single piece, but I have started again a small
[00:14:29] scale from blow zero. The damage was
[00:14:32] devastating for traders who had lost the market that
[00:14:36] once provided their livelihoods. Slowly, they
[00:14:40] began bringing their goods back, setting up again, despite the
[00:14:44] destruction is still visible around
[00:14:46] them. We thought it would not last
[00:14:50] long, but it became years. When we came back,
[00:14:53] we were shocked, we found... 'everything completely destroyed, the
[00:14:57] shops badly burned and the buildings collapsed. It was a
[00:15:01] catastrophic situation. Yet, beyond the business,
[00:15:04] there is an emotional pond between these traders and the
[00:15:08] market they have known for so long. I don't know what to say,
[00:15:12] for me, this street is lifeline. I can't leave it. There is our building
[00:15:16] you saw earlier, entirely collapsed, not even a trace of it left, but
[00:15:20] everyone here has come back. They all shared the same feeling, we can't
[00:15:23] work in other markets.' purchasing power is no longer what it
[00:15:27] was, adding to the burden of traders who have already
[00:15:31] lost what they owned, but they have chosen to return,
[00:15:35] what may look like a gamble or nostal belgia is for
[00:15:39] them a connection to the life they knew and hope for
[00:15:42] new one. coming back doesn't mean things are back to business
[00:15:46] as usual, these traders are rebuilding from the ruins
[00:15:50] with business only slowly beginning to return. for them even
[00:15:54] this modest activity is part of trying to reclaim their
[00:15:58] livelihoods. africa
[00:16:01] matters,
[00:16:04] and from maritime security
[00:16:06] in the horn off. to the safety of women on the street of South
[00:16:10] Africa, wave of murders has packed outrage and renewed
[00:16:14] calls for stronger action against gender-based violence
[00:16:18] to Sakamalo reports
[00:16:19] from
[00:16:25] a kurhole on the streets of ekuruleni, women
[00:16:29] are demanding protection, 12 women have been murdered in the
[00:16:33] city since July 15, for those matching,
[00:16:36] the fear. of becoming the next victim is part of daily
[00:16:40] life, I'm tired of this GPV, I'm tired,
[00:16:44] I'm a woman, I can't even go outside, I'm scared to go outside, I'm
[00:16:48] scared to go to the bathroom because of
[00:16:50] what is happening, I don't trust anything anymore, I don't trust even my yard
[00:16:54] because of what is happening in in in in our
[00:16:57] country, the protesters say they are repeated
[00:17:00] calls for help have gone unanswered, they
[00:17:04] want authorities to act so women can move. freely
[00:17:08] without fearing for their lives, until
[00:17:12] when is this the freedom our four fatherers fight for? are we
[00:17:15] free? we are not free, we are not free,
[00:17:19] every day we are scared, every day we are
[00:17:23] crying for help, nothing is happening until when,
[00:17:27] the acting police minister has linked the violence to a high
[00:17:31] concentration of leaker outlets and police stuff shortage
[00:17:34] ekululeni, president Ramaphosa has announced
[00:17:38] a four-point plan to tackle the crisis.
[00:17:42] Police have 60 days to set out how they will resolve
[00:17:46] gender-based violence and femicide cases.
[00:17:50] Municipalities have 90 days to make public spaces safer
[00:17:54] for women, and prosecutors must outline how they will
[00:17:58] deal with the outstanding murder and rape cases.
[00:18:02] The government is also placed funding and resources to support
[00:18:06] the plan. We owe every woman and
[00:18:09] girl in South Africa a country in which she
[00:18:13] does not have to calculate where she may
[00:18:16] walk, what time she may travel, what she
[00:18:20] may wear, whom she may trust and weather,
[00:18:24] saying no will put her in life
[00:18:27] danger, but for
[00:18:31] these women, the promises have come to late,
[00:18:35] they say they need protection now.
[00:18:39] The South African human rights commission says 569
[00:18:43] women were made out in South Africa between April and June
[00:18:46] 2026. That's about six women a day.
[00:18:50] Police statistics show nearly 900 rape cases were
[00:18:54] reported during the same period. That's almost 100 a
[00:18:57] day. The question now is whether President
[00:19:01] Ramaposa's four point plan to tack the gender-based violence
[00:19:05] will help turn those figures around. or become another failed
[00:19:09] strategy. Africa
[00:19:12] matters ekuruleni South
[00:19:15] Africa.
[00:19:19] Now to Bukina Faso where deaf and hearing impired people
[00:19:23] are using a special technique to dance. The vibra sign
[00:19:26] technique helps them fill the rhythm and has opened up new social
[00:19:30] possibilities for this often marginalized group. Bahar
[00:19:34] has the story. They may not. the
[00:19:37] music, but these dancers can feel its rhythm. all
[00:19:41] them are deaf or hard of hearing. their instructor
[00:19:45] Yaya Sanu has found the way to help them follow the beat. he
[00:19:49] uses his space to show the tempo and mute the
[00:19:53] music. the dancers can also feel the music
[00:19:56] through vibrations in the floor. i really like to dance,
[00:20:00] the repetition, the learning. love of dance is what encourages me to
[00:20:04] keep dancing. in burkinofaso, deaf people
[00:20:08] still face negative attitudes, local study by the
[00:20:12] Institute of Social Sciences last year reported
[00:20:15] 60% have negative perceptions of deafness.
[00:20:19] some people consider deafness a curse or spiritual
[00:20:23] punishment. in my neighborhood
[00:20:27] there used to be a school for deaf people. i saw these children
[00:20:30] keeping themselves to themselves. they did nothing, they didn't
[00:20:34] even participate in sociocultural activities. and caught my
[00:20:38] attention, i said to myself, it's not normal, we have to do
[00:20:41] something, so decided to propose teaching dance and
[00:20:45] it all started from there, and when i started the
[00:20:49] impact, reaction, the positive change in the daily life these
[00:20:53] dancers, these young people, made me understand that there was a
[00:20:56] need. Sanu has trained his dancers to such
[00:21:00] level that he entered a team to the 2023
[00:21:04] francaphone games in Kinshasa, there they
[00:21:07] picked up gold for choreography, and now the group has
[00:21:11] taken its latest production to ivory cost and
[00:21:15] Germany. Before I was only in Bobo, I saw
[00:21:19] the dancer. is traveling around and i was here doing
[00:21:22] nothing, but now i can also travel and i really
[00:21:26] love traveling. for these dancers
[00:21:30] music has become a way to connect, compete and see
[00:21:34] the world, and that proving the show must go on
[00:21:38] even when the music cannot be heard. bar
[00:21:42] Uiggur, africa
[00:26:43] our show this week. Somali piracy is showing signs of
[00:26:48] So what is driving this resurgents and how
[00:29:07] the stories the pains of how people were tortured in these places, I never
[00:29:10] believed it until I saw, and when I saw I couldn't unsee
[00:29:14] it. It's so important for people to
[00:29:16] understand colonization in order to understand what's happening in the
[00:29:20] world, and here in in in Palestine, it's, it's
[00:29:24] happening now, so how
[00:29:28] does the world completely turn the blind eye to the
[00:29:31] Israeli? continuous violence and stills and sees
[00:29:35] Israel is the victim, this is the big question, and the truth is the
[00:29:39] palestinians have been oppressed and suppressed and murdered
[00:29:43] and controlled and dispossessed for decades, that's just the
[00:29:47] truth, هم زادونا قوه كل مره هم
[00:29:50] بيعملوا شيء او بينتهكوا حقوقنا فيه احنا هيك
[00:29:54] بنقوى بزياده مش بنضعف
[00:29:57] storyteller where olive trees weep on
[00:30:01] TRT World.
[00:30:09] A missile hits the main airport in Saudi Arabia's capital, killing
[00:30:13] at least 12 and injuring hundreds. The ansara huties are being
[00:30:17] blamed and Donald Trump is deciding if the US should now get
[00:30:21] involved. Hello and welcome to TRT World
[00:30:25] live from Istanbul, Amyashini Pariachi. Also on this
[00:30:28] program, time for Vladimir Zelensky to go, the US.
[00:30:32] President calls for leadership change in Ukraine. He's angry about
[00:30:36] being called week for doing deal to get diesel from
[00:30:39] Russia. Hundreds of thousands in Gaza are
[00:30:43] bracing for a harsh winter in makeshift tents with Israel
[00:30:46] allowing in just 17% of shelters
[00:30:49] needed. And thousands of arrests
[00:30:53] hasn't deturred them. Protesters are heading back out in New Delhi and
[00:30:56] say they won't give up until the election commissioner.