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As people in wealthy countries look toward a vaccinated future, shopping is on the rise, and for many, the tide of fast fashion is pulling in a way that can feel difficult to escape. Love it or hate it, many feel they can’t live without quick and cheap clothes from brands like H&M or Zara. But activist Hoda Katebi and a collective of garment workers in the US city of Chicago have a radical vision for a world without fast fashion, and they’re taking it on with their own worker-owned factory: Blue Tin Productions.

In this episode:

Hoda Katebi (@hodakatebi), activist

Mercy, member of Blue Tin Production

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US President Joe Biden has promised every American adult they will be eligible for a COVID vaccination by April 19th. But what about the rest of the world? Only 0.01% of all vaccines distributed have gone to the developing world and now Kenya is being a hit by its 3rd wave of the virus. Many complain COVAX, the vaccine program run by the WHO, isn’t distributing the vaccine quick enough and AstraZeneca has been peppered with problems. Meanwhile, hospitals are running out of oxygen, beds are filling up and people are dying without the vaccine.

In this episode:

Catherine Soi (@C_SOI), Al Jazeera correspondent

Dr. Tom Kenyon (@TomKenyonMD), Chief Health Officer, Project HOPE and former Director of Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control

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Jordan’s King Abdullah II has tried to put to rest a week of royal scandal after his half-brother, former crown Prince Hamzah Bin Hussein, was accused of conspiring to destabilise the country. What does an internal fight reveal about a nation known for its stability?

We speak to Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid to get to the bottom of what sparked the unprecedented royal feud.

Threatened aid workers, an empty hospital, and questionable COVID testing. An exclusive investigation by The New Humanitarian and Al Jazeera has uncovered multiple allegations of corruption in South Sudan’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

In this episode: 

Sam Mednick, journalist (@sammednick), and Edmund Yakani, civil society activist and head of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization

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Kenya has hosted Dadaab refugee camp since the 1990s. And those camps have hosted hundreds of thousands of refugees, mainly from Somalia. Dadaab was meant to be temporary, and Kenya’s government is very aware of that. The government called for Dadaab to be shut down last month — something it’s asked for before. What does this mean for the refugees who call Dadaab home?

In this episode:

Humanitarian journalist Moulid Hujale (@MoulidHujale); Catherine Soi (@C_SOI), Al Jazeera correspondent covering East and Central Africa; Deck Abdullahi Ali

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