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Focus on Africa - Why did Ecowas leave Guinea Bissau?

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has withdrawn its mediation team from Guinea Bissau. Its mission was to help reach a political consensus on the elections, which were postponed by President Umaro Sissoco Embalo. So will voting, pushed back to later this year, still go ahead?

A BBC investigation finds that young women in Kenya are being lured into sexual exploitation on TikTok. Is the social media platform doing enough to keep users safe?

And former South African football star, Benni McCarthy, is Kenya's new head coach. Is the appointment of Africans to lead African teams now an established trend?

Presenter: Audrey Brown Technical Producer: Gabriel O'Regan Producers: Sunita Nahar, Bella Hassan and Nyasha Michelle in London. Blessing Aderogba in Lagos Senior Journalist: Patricia Whitehorne Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - COINDESK DAILY: Bybit Can Repay $1.5B Loans in a Year

Host Christine Lee breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry as lenders believe that Bybit will be able to pay back $1.5 billion in bridge loans within a year.

Crypto exchange Bybit will be able to pay back $1.5 billion in bridge loans within a year, according to an assessment by lenders who filled the gaping hole in funds stolen by North Korea’s Lazarus hacking group. CoinDesk's Christine Lee hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Why Does Trump Want to Raise Prices?

The tariffs now imposed on Mexico, Canada, and China threaten to hit Americans in the pocketbook, and given the results of the last election, we discuss why the president would be pursuing this policy when he should be doing what he can to lower prices. And where should "honor" enter into it when talking about American commitments and American alliances? Give a listen.

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Federalist Radio Hour - Why The West Needs A ‘Wake Up Call’

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," author Israel Ellis joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to analyze the rise in antisemitism following Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, discuss the "foreign policy fraud" affecting the political landscape of the Middle East, and explain how anti-Western ideology is infecting American institutions. 

You can find Ellis' book The Wake Up Call: Global Jihad and the Rise of Antisemitism in a World Gone MAD here. 

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Native America Calling - Tuesday, March 4, 2025 – What to watch: From Dark Winds to Sugarcane

Among the shows and films touching on Native American themes is the start of season three of the suspenseful Dark Winds crime saga on AMC. The well-received show has new mysteries with Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon), Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten), and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) among many other Native characters. The show just got confirmed for a fourth season. The Netflix limited series American Primeval is a violent retelling of the American West with several significant Native storylines and characters. And fresh off its Academy Award nomination, Sugarcane is a hard-hitting documentary about the Canadian residential school system.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: What AI Means for ERCOT and the Texas Grid w/ Haley Thomson

ERCOT expects peak demand to hit 150 GW by 2030. Here’s what Texas needs to do to manage that load.


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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Haley Thomson, director of energy trading at Luxor Technologies, joins us to dive deep into ERCOT's unique energy market and how Texas plans to manage the incoming wave of AI and HPC data center demand. We explore battery storage solutions, creative power generation approaches, and why Texas has become the epicenter of both crypto mining and AI computing infrastructure.


Notes:

• ERCOT expects 150GW peak demand by 2030

• ERCOT current peak load is 84GW (2024)

• 6GW of data center demand expected next year

• 24GW solar deployment planned 2024-2025

• 13GW storage deployment planned 2024-2025

• $40B worth of nat gas plants proposed


Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:02 ERCOT's surging power demand

05:37 2023 power price spikes

10:42 ERCOT energy storage plans

17:58 Does storage help AI data center demand?

24:02 Baseload buildout trailing demand

30:01 PGM vs energy only

36:33 Creative energy work arounds

39:16 Does off grid power scale?

40:19 Types of AI power demand

45:35 Hyperscalers buying mining sites

48:40 Wrap up



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Short Wave - Reviving The Woolly Mammoth … With Mice

You've heard of the woolly mammoth. But have you heard of woolly mice? These critters were genetically modified by the Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences to have the same "woolly" and fat appearance as the ancient mammoths. The mice are a key step in the longer journey to de-extinct the woolly mammoth. NPR's Rob Stein takes us to the lab where it all happened.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Local Response To Hospital Pausing Gender-Care Surgeries For Trans Youth

On Feb. 28, President Trump issued an executive order that the federal government will not fund gender affirming or “transition” surgeries. In response, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago announced it would pause these surgeries, and not schedule future ones, for patients under 19 years of age. Reset discusses the impact this is having on trans teens and their parents with WBEZ’s Kristen Schorsch and a parent to a trans child, Michelle Vallet. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.