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Madagascar Grand Sud and Grand Sud-Est: Response overview ... (ReliefWeb)

Situation Report in English on Madagascar about Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Drought, Epidemic and more; published on 18 Aug 2022 by FAO.

Subsequently, sowing for 60 percent of households took place in January 2022 instead of November 2021. • The passage of cyclones Batsirai and Emnati in February 2022 devastated the livelihoods of populations in the Grand Sud-Est, damaging rice, cassava and cash crops, leading to higher levels of acute food insecurity. • Three consecutive years of severe drought in the Grand Sud of Madagascar have led to the country’s worst food crisis in the last 20 years, exacerbating the vulnerabilities of already poor populations.

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La Guerre Est Finie | The New Yorker (The New Yorker)

Film Forum's centenary celebration of the director Alain Resnais culminates in a weeklong run (Aug. 26-Sept. 1) of a new restoration of “La Guerre Est ...

1) of a new restoration of “La Guerre Est Finie” (“The War Is Over”), from 1966, one of his most overtly confrontational yet self-questioning films. Resnais launched his career with such complex considerations of politics and memory as “Hiroshima Mon Amour” and “Muriel,” yet “La Guerre Est Finie,” his fourth feature—a straightforwardly suspenseful thriller—is no less original or audacious. It’s centered on a long-standing Spanish opponent of the Franco dictatorship, Diego Mora (Yves Montand), who is smuggled into France and makes his way to Paris, where he’s awaited by a secret cell of exiled Spanish resisters, by French sympathizers to their cause, and by a longtime lover (Ingrid Thulin).

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