Movement at the epicentre: Wuhan’s lockdown lifts

The Intelligence from The Economist

• Episode: Movement at the epicentre: Wuhan’s lockdown lifts
• Website: The Intelligence from The Economist
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• Duration: 00:23:53
• Published: 2020-04-08 12:19

People are spilling from the Chinese metropolis where the global outbreak took hold. But controls actually remain tight, and authorities’ attempts to spin pandemic into propaganda are not quite working. Mozambique’s rising violence threatens what could be Africa’s largest-ever energy project, in a region that has until now escaped widespread jihadism. And “geomythologists” may have uncovered humans’ oldest tale yet. 

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