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In Azerbaijan, hospitality is highly valued. Guests are welcomed at any time of day.
And they’re always offered the best food, seating, or sleepin...
- Added: Nov 20, 2009
- Length: 02:43
There’s a neighborhood in Cairo simply called “the City of the Dead.” It’s really a vast cemetery made up of rows of mausoleums—some modest, some ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:08
The U.N. estimates three million Colombians have been displaced from their homes because of the ongoing war for land between guerrilla fighters, pa...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 04:47
In Kenya, lines of tents dot the landscape. They house people displaced by post election violence in 2008. There are many such camps in Kenya. M...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
Azerbaijan is a country that sits at the crossroads of East and West. And it’s reflected in the culture. Most of the people there are Muslim, but...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 02:38
In the Cambodian capitol of Phnom Penh, a small Buddhist shrine sits on the banks of the Ton le Sap River. The area is filled with worshippers, to...
- Added: Oct 09, 2009
- Length: 05:48
The entire housekeeping staff at Hyatt hotels in the Boston area was fired recently. Temporary workers making half their hourly wage replaced them...
- Added: Oct 02, 2009
- Length: 05:07
Parents in some countries have to leave their children with relatives in rural areas and go to cities to find work. Sometimes they’re the people w...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 2
Health care is a hot topic right now. And not just in the United States. A report just out from Amnesty International says healthcare in Sierra Le...
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 02:20
13-year old Mamadou Barry had to strike out on his own at an early age. Unlike other kids, Mamadou has no parents sacrificing for his future. He’...
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 02:19
Rumors are a bad thing to spread. In the middle of the night a few months back, Liberians woke each other up to fetch water from a well. They were...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 11, 2009
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 1
A new president has just been elected in the tiny oil rich country of Gabon, in central Africa.
The country’s former President, Omar Bongo, died in...
- Added: Sep 04, 2009
- Length: 04:36
In Zimbabwe, its not just white farmers being thrown off the land as part of the government’s redistribution plan, more than a million farm workers...
- Added: Jul 17, 2009
- Length: 01:56
Being a reporter that travels to the far corners of the world sounds exciting, but reporter Michael Kavanagh reminds us in a Reporter’s Notebook th...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, and WABE
- Added: Jun 30, 2009
- Length: 03:41
- Purchases: 3
High school seniors are donning caps and gowns this month and launching themselves into the world. Writer and photographer David Snyder was workin...
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 02:15
13-year old Kyla Middleton aspires to do great things. She sings on the album Give Us Your Poor. It’s a CD of celebrities and homeless musicians....
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:27
We rely on journalists to bring us the latest news from around the world. They in turn rely on local helpers, or “fixers,” to get what they need f...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: 02:16
15-year old Anthony Kagoma is an AIDS orphan in Tanzania, one of the million children in that country who’ve been orphaned by the epidemic. David ...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: 01:44
Many of those who leave Zimbabwe for South Africa are children and teenagers. When Tendai Maphosa was in the border town of Musina, he saw scores ...
- Added: May 22, 2009
- Length: 02:09
During Pope Benedict‘s recent trip to the Middle East, he called for greater respect for women. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd would endorse tha...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2009
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
The town of Mererani in northern Tanzania is the only place in the world where tanzanite is found. This deep blue gemstone is said to be a thousan...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: May 01, 2009
- Length: 02:08
- Purchases: 1
April 25th is World Malaria Day. What’s it like to come down with malaria? Reporter Will Everett call tell you. He came down with a case of mala...
- Added: Apr 24, 2009
- Length: 02:33
It’s off the coast of Somalia where pirates are seizing ships carrying oil and food aid. Somalia is considered by many a failed state – volatile a...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Apr 24, 2009
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 1
In Bangkok, Thailand, the warmer weather and lots of water provide a perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. But Global Post correspondent Patrick...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 17, 2009
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 1
Writer Kelsey Timmerman and his brother were on a trip to Honduras and enjoying the jungle, the hammock, and the river that flowed right by their b...
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon
- Added: Apr 17, 2009
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 1
