Kate Bartlett
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283 appearances
41 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4 Sep
Kate Bartlett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abe Ahmed, hopes the dam, which will double Ethiopia's energy production, will transform the country's economy.
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But neighboring Egypt sees the dam on a tributary of the Nile River as a disaster and has tried to block it for years.
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Egypt is worried it will result in water shortages.
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Trump claimed recently the US government had mostly paid for the dam, after angering Ethiopia in his first term by suggesting Egypt would blow it up.
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For NPR News, I'm Kate Butard in Johannesburg.
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Doctors Without Borders caught the plans to incinerate the contraceptives which include implants, oral contraceptive pills and IUDs, a quote callous waste.
The US State Department confirmed to the Reuters News Agency that a decision had been taken to destroy the stock from terminated US Agency for International Development Contracts.
US taxpayers have already paid for the contraceptives, which are not expired.
US Senators Jean Shaheen and Brian Schatz have introduced a bill to try and stop the destruction of the supplies.
For NPR News, I'm Kate Butlett in Johannesburg.
Basically, for months, Trump has been saying terrible things have been happening in South Africa. He's been repeating right-wing conspiracy theories, claiming without evidence that white Afrikaner farmers are being persecuted and their land confiscated. The South African government, the data, and most experts say there's no evidence of that.
And Ramaphosa hasn't hidden his frustration over Trump's actions. Here he is last week.
The South African government says the people taking up Trump's refugee offer are simply people who still can't accept apartheid is over. So Ramaphosa faces an uphill battle. And Trump will likely berate South Africa for taking Israel to the Hague over claims of a genocide in its war in Gaza.
Well, Ramaphosa is a skilled negotiator. He worked alongside Nelson Mandela and was instrumental in the talks that ended apartheid. Now he needs to salvage the U.S. relationship, which is of huge economic importance to South Africa. He might try to appeal to Trump's transactional side. South Africa is rich in minerals like platinum. And Ramaphosa is expected to appeal to the U.S.
's interests in countering China's influence in Africa as well. And he could offer a deal to Trump's South African-born advisor, Elon Musk. The billionaire businessman objects to affirmative action laws that he claims prevent him from rolling out his Starlink satellite service in South Africa.
Well, South Africans are watching anxiously to see if Ramaphosa is humiliated the way Ukrainian President Zelensky was on his visit to the Oval Office earlier this year. And many South Africans, both white and black, are really angry with Trump's attacks on their country. I spoke to people at a Johannesburg cafe, including 42-year-old barista Sia Rallo.
Ramaphosa might also want to bring up the one South African Trump does seem to admire, Nelson Mandela. He's repeatedly compared himself and his legal problems to Mandela's 27 years in jail for the struggle against apartheid. That comparison drew anger from Mandela's family.
Three off-the-record sources have told me that about 54 Afrikaners have been interviewed and granted refugee status in the U.S., These three government sources don't wish to be named because they're not authorized to speak to the media. What we know at the moment is that a group of South Africans will be arriving on Monday at Dulles Airport.
There they will be greeted with fanfare by senior government officials and a press conference is scheduled to be held. And after that, they'll be sent to their final destinations for resettlement.
Foreign Affairs Minister Olivia Ndohundurahe told Rwandan TV that talks are ongoing. He said his country had experience in the matter after Rwanda made a similar deal to accept expelled migrants from the UK. That multi-million dollar deal was found unlawful by the British Supreme Court and ultimately scrapped.
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