Joseph King
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15 appearances
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Sep
Joseph King’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Rwanda hosted its twenty first annual Quitazina.
The day is dedicated to giving names to newborn mountain gorillas.
Every year, a group of philanthropists, community servants, and celebrities are given the honor of choosing those names.
Former French soccer star Mamadou Saku named one of the twenty two guerrillas in Wadana.
Which translates to united in pursuit of a common goal.
The name is inspired by the collective effort to conserve the gorillas.
Saku says it's an honor.
It's important for me to put Africa in light and show how Africa is beautiful.
There are fewer than 1200 mountain gorillas in the wild.
For NPR News, I'm Joseph King in Kennedy, Rwanda.
Five million dollars will go to food banks, two million from the emergency fund, and three million from the Alabama Department of Human Resources.
Three hundred dollars will be given to families enrolled in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.
Jamie Leo is the director of the Christian Service Mission, a local nonprofit that assists food banks.
The Birmingham City Council also voted to release a million dollars of the city's reserves to help people with food needs.
For NPR News, I'm Joseph King in Birmingham.
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