Day 1,898: porous, incendiary

It has porous borders with seven fragile states, accounting for 21% of Africa’s land mass and home to 280m people, including Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya.

Beyond Africa, expect a new refugee shock in Europe, to follow those after wars in Syria and Libya, at a time when migration is an incendiary issue in France, Germany and elsewhere.

Why Sudan’s catastrophic war is the world’s problem

Artwork of the day 
Fire
Giuseppe_Arcimboldo
Date: 1566
Style: Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
Genre: allegorical painting
Media: oil, wood
Location:Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Dimensions: 76 x 51 cm

Word of the day 
porous: not protected enough to stop people going through:
incendiary: designed to cause fires:

Quote of the day
“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke