Month: December 2024

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Focus on Africa - Why is President Biden visiting Angola?

US President Biden is in Angola for what is likely to be the final foreign trip of his presidency. It’s his first visit to Sub- Saharan Africa and it's part of a promise the president made, during the US-Africa Leaders Summit in 2022, to travel to the continent. But, it comes almost at the end of his tenure, so what does the president's trip to Angola say about the US Africa policy?

Also, we'll hear hearing from the Mozambican opposition leader, Venancio Mondlane, as protests continue over election results

And who is Maxim Shugalei and what's he doing in Africa?

Presenter: Audrey Brown Producers: Frenny Jowi in Nairobi. Rob Wilson and Victor Sylver in London. Technical producer: Nick Randell Senior Journalist: Karnie Sharp Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

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Native America Calling - Monday, December 2, 2024 – Getting the lay of the land

If you ever buy or sell a parcel of land or build a home or business, you’ll likely need a land surveyor. They are the first professionals on the scene when people need to find and document property lines, reservation boundaries, utilities, and topography. On a bigger scale, much of the American west was originally mapped and named by explorers like Lewis and Clark and John Wesley Powell in the 1800s. It’s now up to Native American surveyors to include their unique understanding of the land going forward. We’ll hear from Native land surveyors about their work and the need to recruit more Native people to their ranks.
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Up First from NPR - Hunter Biden Pardon, Trump’s FBI Pick, Syrian Offensive

President Biden has issued a full and unconditional pardon of his son, Hunter Biden. President-elect Donald Trump says he'll nominate ally Kash Patel to serve as the next Director of the FBI. And, rebel militias made territorial gains in Syria as the country's 13-year civil war continues.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Shock and thaw: Syria’s frozen war resumes

The country’s civil war never ended—it became a fragile stalemate that fell out of the news. A surprise rebel advance reveals how the war’s international players are busy facing their own challenges. Our correspondent found it so difficult to disappear from the internet that she gave up (10:30). And who were the stockmarket winners as “Trump trades” fired up again (16:54)?


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Start the Week - The story of British art – from cave paintings to landscapes

While the great Italian renaissance painters and the Dutch masters are world famous, why are there so few British artists from this period leading the way? It’s one of the questions the art historian Bendor Grosvenor examines in his new history, The Invention of British Art. From prehistoric bone carvings to the landscapes of John Constable, Grosvenor reassesses the contribution British artists have made at home and abroad.

The writer and former curator at the V&A Susan Owens wants to turn our attention to drawing. It is a simpler, more democratic form of art-making, she argues in The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art. And one that is a fundamental part of the creative process. She reveals what can be learnt by looking again at the sketches made by Gainsborough, William Blake and Tacita Dean.

The artist Lucinda Rogers specialises in urban landscapes. She immerses herself in her environment and records straight from eye to paper. Her intimate street views explore the changing nature of cities, from London to New York. During the US Presidential election she travelled to different locations as a reportage illustrator. A reproduction of her first sketchbook, New York Winter 1988, has just been re-released.

Producer: Katy Hickman

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 12.2.24

Alabama

  • 3 AL congressmen denounce recent threats to Trump Transition Team
  • AL Redistricting case will go to trial on February 10th of 2025
  • Biden admin. wants SCOTUS to review AL's ban on transgenderism for minors
  • AL judge calls articles about his leniency on crime as "disinformation"
  • Locust Fork man builds 2 bridges in NC and calls out FEMA for neglect

National

  • Joe Biden pardons his son for decades of crime, despite promise not to
  • Trump nominates Kash Patel to become next FBI director, ousting Wray
  • Trump plans to dismantle Biden's student loan forgiveness programs
  • Rudy Guiliani of NYC continues with law fare cases against him for his association with Trump and revelation of Hunter Biden laptop contents
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 12.2.24

Alabama

  • 3 AL congressmen denounce recent threats to Trump Transition Team
  • AL Redistricting case will go to trial on February 10th of 2025
  • Biden admin. wants SCOTUS to review AL's ban on transgenderism for minors
  • AL judge calls articles about his leniency on crime as "disinformation"
  • Locust Fork man builds 2 bridges in NC and calls out FEMA for neglect

National

  • Joe Biden pardons his son for decades of crime, despite promise not to
  • Trump nominates Kash Patel to become next FBI director, ousting Wray
  • Trump plans to dismantle Biden's student loan forgiveness programs
  • Rudy Guiliani of NYC continues with law fare cases against him for his association with Trump and revelation of Hunter Biden laptop contents