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‘I hate elephants’: How Botswana’s giants became the center of a political clash

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Max Bearak on the political background of the lifting of Botswana’s elephant hunting ban. Peter Jamison on a public housing complex at the heart of a D.C. housing debate. Plus, Luisa Beck on the Bauhaus movement 100 years later.

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Post reports is sponsored by the Asset Podcast, produced by the Center for American Progress

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The Asset tells the story of Donald Trump and Russia.

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It's about the role of a hostile foreign government in the election of the President of

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the United States.

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From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

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Hi, kids, Janet Johnson.

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This is Post Reports.

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I'm Martine Powers.

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It's Tuesday, June 11th.

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Today a backlash to elephant conservation efforts, an unconventional idea to address homelessness

0:45.8

and reimagining bad house on its 100th anniversary.

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To understand the ban on elephant hunting, you kind of have to look at who did it.

0:59.7

The next barrack is the Africa Bureau Chief for the post.

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And he's been reporting in Botswana, where government officials recently legalized elephant

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hunting after a five-year ban that was put in place by the last president.

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So that's President Ian Kama, who is right up there in the elite class of people in Botswana.

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His father was a freedom fighter and the first president of Botswana.

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And Ian Kama inherited both the presidency and the chiefdanship.

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His family has been at the forefront of Botswana politics since the beginning.

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