This week on The Sound Kitchen, guest chef Aidan O’Donnell gives you the answer to the question about the cessation of diplomatic and economic relationships with Qatar. There’s some great music, and of course, the new quiz question.
Hello everyone!
This week’s quiz: On 10 June, Aidan O’Donnell asked you a question about the Middle East. That week, five Arab nations broke all economic and diplomatic ties with Qatar – even cutting off land, air and sea travel to and from Qatar. You were to write in with the names of those five countries.
The answer is: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Yemen. Since then, Comoros, Mauritania, Senegal, the Maldives and the government of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland have also cut off ties. The Tobruk-based government of Libya say they too have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, even though they have no diplomatic representation in the country. And there are four countries which have downgraded diplomatic ties with Qatar without fully cutting relations: Chad, Djibouti, Jordan, and Niger.
The winners are: RFI Listeners Club member Ibrahim Umar Abdulkarim from Kano State in Nigeria. Ibrahim sent his answer in a text to the Sound Kitchen mobile phone, which you can do, too – scroll down to the bottom of this page for the phone number. Hailing from Chiniot District in Pakistan, Ali Shahzad Chadhar is a winner this week, as is Mrs Momtaz Begum, a member of the Shapla Digital Radio Fan Club in Kurigram, Bangladesh. There’s John Kennedy Adzomani from Kumasi, Ghana, and last but not least, Esther Akiteng, from the Kumi Central RFI Listeners Club in Kampala, Uganda.
Congratulations winners!
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