February 2012
19 posts
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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Feb 25th
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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.
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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