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Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics and the African diaspora.
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Every week Grant Reeher, Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University, leads a conversation with a notable guest. Guests include people from central New York -- writers, politicians, activists, public officials, and business professionals whose work affects the public life of the community -- as well as nationally-prominent figures visiting the region to talk about their work.
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The Wolfpack Podcast - Smart Politics With Carl Wolfson, Paul Block, Kim Upham

The Wolfpack Smart Politics: Carl Wolfson, Paul Block, Kim Upham, Dylan Hydes

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Four activists from Portland, Oregon, led by Portland radio personality, Carl Wolfson, offer key political and cultural insights -- with hearty laughs along the way. If you want an upbeat message focused on defeating Donald Trump in 2020 and building a better world, this podcast is for you!
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Crackdown

Crackdown Productions

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The drug war, covered by drug users as war correspondents. Crackdown is a monthly podcast about drugs, drug policy and the drug war led by drug user activists and supported by research. Each episode will tell the story of a community fighting for their lives. It’s also about solutions, justice for those we have lost, and saving lives.
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Good Is The New Cool

Afdhel Aziz & Bobby Jones

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Purpose is the buzzword of the moment, with socially conscious consumers, activist employees, and impact investors fueling the cultural revolution around business as a force for good. But what is Purpose? How do companies and brands discover and articulate it? How can older companies reverse-engineer it into their DNA in an authentic and meaningful way? In their new podcast series, Good Is The New Cool: The Field Recordings, Bobby Jones and Afdhel Aziz meet the men and women on the purpose r ...
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As the world observes the U.N. International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, human rights activists and his family are demanding answers about Zimbabwe activist Itai Dzamara, missing since 2015. Figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute show military spending for countries in the Middle East and North Africa t…
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The chief negotiator at U.S.-mediated peace talks on Sudan says breakthroughs for greater humanitarian access that were achieved in the first round of negotiations last week are holding and are expanding. Parts of the 46th Chinese naval escort taskforce visited Egypt, Morocco, the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somalia over several months this yea…
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The World Health Organization Regional Committee for Africa has opened its 74th session in Brazzaville, and mpox is high on the agenda. As the West clamps down on imports of green technology products from China, the world’s biggest manufacturer, is looking for new markets. Sudanese army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who boycotted recent cease-fire…
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United Nations agencies warn that refugees and displaced families in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other African countries with mpox outbreaks are at particular risk of illness and death because of their living conditions. Tunisia's President Kais Saied announced a broad cabinet reshuffle of 19 ministers – nearly the entire government – ahea…
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A drought that started early this year is intensifying across southern Africa, leaving almost 70 million people in urgent need of aid in countries including Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Health authorities in sub-Saharan Africa say armed gangs and rebel groups are obstructing their access to towns and villages that are suspected of having m…
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Just a month after President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection, Kamala Harris accepted the nomination to be the Democratic Party’s candidate in the U.S. presidential election. U.S. diplomat and Africa foreign policy advisor Susan Rice said the United States must continue to strengthen its ties with African nations during the next adm…
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On the third day of the Democratic National Convention. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz accepted his party’s nomination as its vice-presidential candidate in the U.S. election. The 2024 Democratic National Convention heads into its last evening today in Chicago, and the speakers have focused on delivering a high-energy message to woo voters. Egyptian j…
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama addressed Democrats in their home city of Chicago, saying Vice President Kamala Harris is the right choice to win the U.S. presidential election this November. The resurgence of mpox has health officials worldwide on high alert, and a World Health Organization official says the…
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A month after announcing that he would not seek reelection, President Joe Biden addressed the Democratic National Convention Monday evening and passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris as the party's new presidential nominee. Human rights organizations are reacting angrily after Zimbabwe's ruling party acknowledged that more than 100 activi…
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Police say 16,000 people – mainly women and children – were kidnapped in South Africa between June 2023 and June 2024, almost double the number two years ago. The Democratic National Convention kicks off today in the Midwestern U.S. city of Chicago with President Joe Biden scheduled to speak to the delegates tonight. The conflict in Sudan has had a…
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Seth David Radwell On this week's episode of the Campbell Conversations, Grant Reeher speaks with Seth David Radwell, whose experiences include being the president of e-Scholastic and CEO of The Proactiv Company. He's the author of the book, "American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing Our Nation."…
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Zimbabwe is hosting the annual summit of the 16-nation Southern African Development Community on Saturday, and human rights organizations have urged SADC to look at the country's human rights situation. The United States and United Nations aid agencies welcome the opening of the Adre border crossing with Chad, which will allow humanitarian aid to f…
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The World Health Organization has declared mpox a global emergency for the second time in three years, bringing more attention and resources to the outbreak. The Sudan cease-fire talks are in their second day in Geneva, despite the absence of the Sudanese army. In Chad, officials are asking for international assistance to save thousands of people f…
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As talks on Sudan’s 16-month-old civil war and the country’s humanitarian crisis begin in Geneva, a group of Sudanese youth meeting in Nairobi is expressing support and hope. Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio used the United Nations Security Council presidency to push for more seats for African nations, saying Africa cannot wait any longer …
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Senegalese news organizations widely heeded a call today for a news blackout to protest economic measures by the new government which they say threaten the industry. United Nations agencies warn Sudan is at a breaking point after more than 15 months of conflict because of what they call a crisis of neglect. The United Nations Support Mission in Lib…
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Tanzania's main opposition group, Chadema, accused police of detaining the party’s former presidential candidate Tundu Lissu, other party leaders and more than 400 youth members. Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees have crossed into Uganda this year after traveling through neighboring South Sudan. The Paris Olympics have wrapped up after some st…
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Mary Chung Hayashi Program transcript: Grant Reeher: Welcome to the Campbell Conversations, I'm Grant Reeher. My guest today is Mary Chung Hayashi. She's a former California State Assembly member and the author of a new book titled, “Women in Politics: Breaking Down the Barriers to Achieve True Representation.” The book weaves together her own life…
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Health officials are warning of a widespread outbreak of mpox cases in 16 African countries, raising concern over the risk of it spreading to more areas across the continent. The United Nations refugee agency warns seasonal rains and severe flooding in war-torn Sudan are worsening the plight of thousands of displaced people in dire need of humanita…
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As political and economic protests have consumed Africa in recent months, Tunisia, the birth of the Arab Spring, appears to be moving in the opposite direction ahead of presidential elections in October. President Kais Saied fired his prime minister this week and an opposition candidate was sentenced to two years imprisonment for criticizing the la…
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As Kenya’s new cabinet gathered to be sworn in today, thousands of mostly young protesters demonstrated in Nairobi, protesting the country’s economic conditions and calling for President William Ruto to resign. The World Health Organization says Chad recently eliminated the tropical disease Human African Trypanosomiasis, known as “HAT”. And Nigeria…
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The recent protests in Kenya that forced the president to dissolve his cabinet have been led by people under 27 years old, members of Generation Z, many of whom identify as tribeless and classless. American astronaut, geoscience professor and artist Sian Proctor is touring South African schools to emphasize the importance of education in science, t…
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced her running mate in the presidential election will be Tim Walz, the governor of the upper Midwestern state of Minnesota. In a letter to Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, France's President Emmanuel Macron called Morocco’s 2007 proposal to offer the Western Sahara limited autonomy under its sovereignty the "only…
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Protests over economic hardship continue for a fifth day today in Nigeria, despite President Bola Tinubu’s call yesterday for organizers to suspend the protests and engage in a dialogue with the government. Some security experts say militants belonging to Islamic extremist groups such as al-Qaeda and Islamic State may have undergone military instru…
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Fred Fiske Program transcript: Grant Reeher: Welcome to the Campbell Conversations, I'm Grant Reeher. My guest today is Fred Fiske. Fred spent his career in print journalism, including writing editorials for the Syracuse Post-Standard. He's here with me today because he's recently written a biography about a Syracuse businessman titled, "The Grocer…
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Experts say it appears famine is under way in the North Darfur area of Sudan and starvation is likely occurring in other parts of the country. Police in Nigeria are on red alert as countrywide protests enter day two, following deadly violence in some areas on the first day. The United Nations' climate crisis coordinator and a top World Food Program…
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Nigerian police fired teargas at protesters in the capital Abuja and the northern city of Kano as thousands of people took to the streets across the country to protest economic hardships. Some security experts say militants belonging to Islamic extremist groups such as al-Qaeda and Islamic State may have undergone military instruction in South Afri…
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Ethiopia is easing foreign-exchange curbs as part of an economic reform package, as the deeply indebted nation awaits a multibillion-dollar bailout from international lenders. Senior U.S. officials say the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA, has helped drive economic progress in sub-Saharan Africa. The deaths of a top Hamas leader and a se…
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(Control Room 2) Program transcript: Grant Reeher: Welcome to the Campbell Conversations. I'm Grant Reeher. My guest today is Melanie Littlejohn. Last December, Ms. Littlejohn was named as the president and CEO of the Central New York Community Foundation, she brings to that position a wide array of previous experience in the private and nonprofit …
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A cascade of crises facing U.S. President Joe Biden's re-election campaign led him to drop out of the race, and some political analysts in Africa say he has prioritized the continent like no other American president. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris aims to run for president. South Sudan’s national basketball team delivered a surprising performanc…
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Today the world commemorates Nelson Mandela International Day, honoring his commitment to peace, equality, rights and a dignified life for all. Members of a U.S. presidential advisory council have approved a student exchange deal between an American college and a Nigerian university as part of its effort to strengthen collaboration on education, he…
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U.S. voters are assessing the impact of Saturday’s attempted assassination of presidential candidate Donald Trump. As protests continue in Kenya, Human Rights Watch is calling for greater accountability of public funds in the country, framing it partly as a human rights issue. Global organizations say there will be widespread migration in the near …
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An assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has sparked heavy scrutiny for the U.S. the agency tasked with protecting current and former presidents, to determine how a gunman was able to overcome tight security at a campaign rally Saturday. As Donald Trump appeared at the Republican National Convention and named his vice presidential …
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing ahead with his campaign for the presidency, as the Federal Bureau of Investigation ramps up its investigation into the attempt on Trump’s life two days ago. People around the world have reacted strongly to the assassination attempt on former Donald Trump on Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally. Long lines w…
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Wawa Gatheru Program transcript: Grant Reeher: Welcome to the Campbell Conversations, I'm Grant Reeher. My guest today is Wawa Gatheru. Ms. Gatheru is the founder of Black Girl Environmentalist, a national organization dedicated to empowering black girls, women and nonbinary people across the climate sector. In 2019, she was named the first black p…
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A United Nations report says the Ugandan army has provided support to the M23 rebel group operating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a charge Uganda denies. Migrant aid groups say refugees and migrants who risk their lives on dangerous land routes across the African continent are subject to horrific violence, abuse, and exploitation. Member…
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Italy’s government is trying a new development-focused approach to prevent migrants from attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Africa. President Joe Biden welcomes members of the newly enlarged NATO alliance this week for a summit amid growing doubts over his political future. Sudanese political parties and civilian groups reached a consensus …
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The West African bloc ECOWAS has warned that it risks disintegration and worsened insecurity after Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger formalized their breakaway union. South Africa’s new minister of home affairs has extended the visas of thousands of foreigners in the country until the end of the year, a move aimed at keeping skilled workers while their …
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Mark Molinaro This week on the Campbell Conversations, Grant Reeher speaks with Rep. Marc Molinaro, a Republican who represents New York's 19th Congressional District. An independent organization recently ranked Molinaro as the 2nd most bipartisan member of the House of Representatives, and the 5th most productive. Program Transcription: Grant Reeh…
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In Canada, alcohol is legal and we have a safe supply of booze. So why do some people drink mouthwash or rice wine? And why does the state over-police poor people for public drinking? In episode 46, we learn how Canada’s alcohol policies drive illicit drinking. And we hear from a group of drinkers who are fighting back with alcohol-based harm reduc…
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Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is ready to retire at the end of his term and hand the presidency to a new ZANU-PF leader. Kenya President William Ruto has ordered significant cuts in the federal budget and other reforms to pay off the country’s debt burden, in a move seen as a concession after weeks of protests against a tax bill. …
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