2011 April | PRI's The World - Part 17

Archive for April, 2011

Gbagbo preparing to step down

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The fighting in Ivory Coast may be coming to an end, as entrenched leader Laurent Gbagbo is reportedly negotiating his own exit. Anchor Marco Werman gets details from the BBC’s John James in the main city, Abidjan.Download MP3

A voice from Ivory Coast

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Anchor Marco Werman talks to British business man Craig Hitchcock, who has decided to stay in Abidjan where he lives, in spite of the ongoing crisis in Ivory Coast. Download MP3

Should Libyan rebels be provided arms?

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Anchor Marco Werman talks with Matt Schroeder, director of the Arms Sales Monitoring Project at the Federation of American Scientists, about the complicated issue of arming the rebels in Libya. Download MP3

Air France wreckage recovery

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with David Gallo of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He led the search team that discovered the wreckage from Air France Flight 447 last weekend. The commercial flight plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean in June 2009, killing all 228 people on board. Download MP3

Michel Martelly, singer, president!

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Today’s Geo Quiz welcomes a new president. We’re looking for a nation in the Caribbean where people just found out who their new president is going to be. Voters first went to the polls in November but a second round of voting had to be held to settle the matter. Download MP3

PRI’s The World(04/05/2011: Jason Strother, Jeb Sharp)

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Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo is showing signs he’ll step down from office; also, new worries about earth’s ozone layer, UN scientists say levels over the Arctic Circle are at an all-time low; then, a musician who once satirized Haiti’s politicians may become the country’s next president. Download MP3

Music Heard on Air for April 5, 2011

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Tunes spun on The World between our reports for April 5, 2011. Artists featured are: Habib Koite, Lamine Konte, Djeneba Seck, AfroCubism, Anouar Barhem.

Battle for Abidjan

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Rival forces are poised for a showdown in Ivory Coast’s main city Abidjan. Fighters backing the country’s internationally-recognized president Alassane Ouattara have poured into the city in recent days. Their goal is to force the incumbent Laurent Gbagbo to step aside but they will have to overcome the stiff resistance of forces loyal to Gbagbo. The BBC’s John James is in the northern city of Bouake. Download MP3
Pictures from Abidjan

Turkish aid efforts in Libya

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An envoy of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi is in Turkey for talks, in what’s being seen as an attempt to resolve the conflict in Libya. Turkey has maintained regular contact with both sides in the conflict although it’s also playing a role in the international military operation in Libya. The World’s Ben Gilbert reports on a Turkish aid ship that picked up wounded Libyans in the besieged city of Misrata. Download MP3
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Italy calls for help with refugees

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The World’s Gerry Hadden looks at Italy’s attempts to move North African immigrants taking refuge on the island of Lampedusa. Italy has called on other European countries to share the burden. Download MP3

Osaka scales back electricity to honor victims

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A city in western Japan far from the tsunami and earthquake damage dims its famous bright lights in solidarity with victims. Sonia Narang reports from Osaka. Download MP3

Slideshow: Osaka: Before and After the earthquake

Drilling down in an Antarctic glacier

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Eric Niiler reports on the search for ancient air trapped in the ice of an Antarctic glacier. It could provide a window into the climate of the past and clues to the warmer climate of the future. Download MP3
Slideshow: Drilling into Antarctic ice

UN presence in Ivory Coast

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Washington Post correspondent Colum Lynch about the dilemma facing U-N security forces on the ground in Ivory Coast. Download MP3

Japan sends radioactive water to sea

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Japan is running out of space in the storage tanks that house radioactive water previously used to cool damaged nuclear reactors. The excess is now being dumped into the ocean. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with oceanography professor Bill Burnett about the potential effect on marine life. Download MP3

More violence marks Yemen protests

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with a BBC reporter in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, for the latest on developments in Yemen. For security reasons, we’re not sharing the reporter’s name. Download MP3