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The World Next Week: Famine in Somalia, Fighting in Libya

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
Internally displaced women wait to receive food aid from Saudi Arabia in Badbaado settlement camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, August 17, 2011. Somalia called for the creation of a new force to protect food aid convoys and camps in the famine-hit country, and declared a state of emergency in parts of Mogadishu. REUTERS/Omar Faruk
Internally displaced women wait to receive food aid in a settlement camp in Mogadishu on August 17, 2011. (Omar Faruk/courtesy Reuters)

The World Next Week podcast is up. Stewart Patrick filled in for Bob McMahon. Stewart and I talked about the famine in the horn of Africa; a possible endgame in Libya; the UN Security Council’s discussion of its peacekeeping operations; and developments in the Republican nominating race.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/podcast/2011/20110817_TWN…]

The highlights:

The New York Times discusses possible thefts of food aid in Somalia, and the Telegraph covers World Health Organization concerns about a cholera epidemic in the country. The New York Times covers this weekend’s rebel gains in Libya, and the Washington Post reports on the defection of a top Qaddafi security official. The Economic Times covers India’s push for additional peacekeeping funds, and the World Politics Review discusses the status of peacekeeping operations in South Sudan. At “The Cable,” Josh Rogin reviews Rick Perry’s foreign policy views.