Kate Bartlett

2 weeks ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Kate Bartlett

AILSA CHANG, HOST:The U.S. has started scheduling interviews with some Afrikaners in South Africa. This follows an executive order from President Trump that offers the white minority group refugee status. That move has emboldened other groups in South Africa who are now calling on Trump to go even further and support their secessionist ambitions. Kate Bartlett reports from Johannesburg.

2 weeks ago | kuow.org | Kate Bartlett

South Africa reels over Trump's offer of refugee status to white AfrikanersPresident Trump's controversial executive order offering refugee status to the White Afrikaner minority in South Africa has enflamed tensions in the country and emboldened some who want to secede.

2 weeks ago | opb.org | Kate Bartlett |Emmanuel Akinwotu

Army soldiers patrol a market area in Khartoum. “I felt the air was lighter, I felt very joyful. I felt a lot of emotions, I was overwhelmed on that morning.”That’s how Khartoum resident Duaa Tariq described feeling when the Sudanese capital was liberated from almost two years of brutal paramilitary occupation over a week ago.

1 month ago | csmonitor.com | Kate Bartlett

The world’s youngest country is no stranger to conflict. South Sudan fought a two-decade war for its independence from Sudan, which it achieved in 2011. Then, just over two years later, a bitter civil war broke out. That conflict ended in 2018 with a wobbly peace deal between the country’s two top leaders, President Salva Kiir and his rival, Riek Machar. But now, their power-sharing agreement is fracturing.

1 month ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Kate Bartlett

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Another conflict is looming in the world's youngest country, South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011 and saw civil war erupt shortly after its foundation. A tenuous power-sharing deal is teetering on the brink. An evacuation of non-emergency U.S. government employees is underway, and the United Nations has warned of a "regression" amid political infighting and escalating militia violence.