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Escape to Cairo from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, we bring you a story from our partner Kerning Cultures about Patrice Lumumba’s children, and their escape to Cairo.

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 02/11/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week, we tackle a few thorny subjects. In South Africa, we look at poaching – not of animals, but of plants! Plants that could be sitting on y...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
World in Progress 07/08/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Lake Kivu, a ticking time bomb? - An international team has started extracting methane from Lake Kivu to generate ele...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 10, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 04/02/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Is there such a thing as "clean cobalt"? Cobalt is one of the most important raw materials used to make batteries for smar...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
78: How To Change The Storyteller-Cristi Hegranes, Founder Global Press Institute
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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Cristi Hegranes wanted to be a foreign correspondent since the time she was 6 years old. Within days of achieving her dream job, after all the trad...

Bought by KWMR, KWIT, KUT, KCSB-FM, KWIT and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Latitude News Podcast #8 — Can the U.S. keep conflict minerals from Congo out of your laptop?
From: Latitude News
Caption: Marie Jeanne, one of Congo's hundreds of thousands of women who are a victim of sexual violence.
Lawmakers in the U.S. want to leverage our consumer power to bring change to the Congo. The question is: do they stand a chance of making a differe...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 1
Sourcing Conflict: Mineral Supply Chains and Human Rights in the Congo
From: Ian Gray
Series: Ceres Sustainability Podcast
Caption: Gold from a days work by an artisanal miner in Kaniola in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Credit: By Sasha Lezhnev - Enough Project
This is the first episode in a mini-series covering the impacts corporate supply chains have on labor standards and human rights. We explore how re...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 16:00
Mountain gorillas save researchers from militia gunfire
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Silverback Kabirizi, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Fewer than 800 Mountain Gorillas remain making them one the world's most endangered species. For more than 20 years people around the world have be...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:06
Julian Smith, author of 'Crossing the Heart of Africa'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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A few months before he was to be married to his long-time girlfriend, Julian Smith was experiencing anxiety about making such a "huge commitment." ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Smartphones: From Popular Product to Ethical Dilemma
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Smartphones rely on coltan, much of which is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Given that the Congo represents one of the worst illustrati...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:00