Tumbling From The Cave: Archive

Feb 29th

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Feb 28th

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WFP Regional Director for West Africa Thomas Yanga outlines some of the challenges to reaching hungry people in the Sahel with food assistance.

Feb 27th

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Trailer for ‘Call me Kuchu’ a documentary on murdered Ugandan gay-rights activists David Kato HT @africasacountry

Feb 24th

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Feb 23rd

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Feb 22nd

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Feb 21st

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Feb 20th

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Feb 19th

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Feb 18th

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“Ultimately, the canonical view of conflict minerals in the eastern DRC appears...”

– Money quote from Rachel Strohm that needs to be read widely.

Feb 17th

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Feb 9th

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Should a country’s energy needs outweigh the social and ecological impacts of projects like the Belo Monte dam? Al Jazeera explores the question.

Feb 5th

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Believing is seeing, Haiti edition

tatewatkins: It’s probably never a good idea for someone who has little frame of reference regarding poverty to parachute into a poor tropical city for one week and report on the situation for all the world to read. You inevitably wind up with descriptions of capital-city chaos and disorder, omnipresent threats of danger presented without context, more interviews with expats than locals, and...

Feb 4th

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Feb 3rd

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Feb 2nd

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Jan 29th

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Jan 29th

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Jan 28th

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“18 Days in Egypt” is using media taken by people participating in last year’s revolution. I saw one of the people involved with the project speak last fall and show some clips of the material already collected. This has the potential to be something really special.

Jan 26th

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