February 2012
19 posts
3 tags
5 tags
WFP Regional Director for West Africa Thomas Yanga outlines some of the challenges to reaching hungry people in the Sahel with food assistance.
Trailer for ‘Call me Kuchu’ a documentary on murdered Ugandan gay-rights activists David Kato
HT @africasacountry
7 tags
2 tags
5 tags
Ultimately, the canonical view of conflict minerals in the eastern DRC appears...
– Money quote from Rachel Strohm that needs to be read widely.
3 tags
Should a country’s energy needs outweigh the social and ecological impacts of projects like the Belo Monte dam? Al Jazeera explores the question.
4 tags
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...
January 2012
56 posts
8 tags
1 tag
3 tags
“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.
4 tags
6 tags
A) Form a swimming pool collective with a rotating chair, with use of the pool...
– Matt of Aid Thoughts responding to Duncan Green’s question if the Oxfam pool in Nairobi should be opened. Spot on.
7 tags
5 tags
4 tags
11 tags
5 tags
The perception of international aid and development in popular culture, too, is...
– @talesfromthehood can’t get away from blogging; he is just too good at it.
Remarks on Cote d’Ivoire by Sec State Clinton
1 tag
The Business of The Black Market
Created by: Business Degree
5 tags
boko haram, aqim, and the regional dynamics of local insurgencies via @danatgu http://ow.ly/8wytm
6 tags
3 tags
1 tag
7 tags