Cadena SER goes on the ground to report from the Syrian conflict

Cadena SER has marked the fifth anniversary of the start of the conflict in Syria with special coverage of the conflict that has left more than 300,000 dead and more than six and a half million internally displaced persons. What began as a protest movement with the aim of achieving greater freedoms during the Arab spring, has led to five years of fighting and four and a half million refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and on the borders of Europe.

The news team for Cadena SER’s Hora 25, led by Ángels Barceló, returned to Amman, capital of Jordan, three years after their last visit. Together with UNICEF, they visited the Za'atari refugee camp, home to more than 80,000 people and where 12 children are born every day, to try to explain what five years of war mean and what the future holds for this lost generation.

Meanwhile, the program La Ventana, anchored by Carles Francino, aired a special broadcast from the capital of Lebanon (a country where one in four people is a refugee) and accompanied the NGO Action Against Hunger, to the Zahle and Tyre refugee camps. Francino also spoke with Rui Oliveira, director of Action Against Hunger in Lebanon; Noura Usj, head of the Department of Foreign Languages ​​at the University of Saint Joseph; and Eduardo Navarro, culture manager at the Cervantes Institute in Beirut.

Across the Mediterranean, there was a live report from the refugee camp on the border between Greece and Macedonia, with Rafa Baker, SER’s special correspondent. In addition, listeners could comment and share this experience on social media with the hashtag #LaSERconLosRefugiados and access all the information in the special section on  Cadenaser.com.