This week in African elections…
There aren’t any. To be fair, only one of the three I’m thinking about is even supposed to have happened. But the other two…
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Boozing it up in the ‘third world’?: The mix tape
Update, after I got out from under my rock In one of the very active comments sections on the blogs that have taken this…
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“Bangui, la Coquette!” Sure, if heat-n-humidity’s your thing…
I’ve been in the Central African Republic for the last two weeks, on the first leg of a long reporting journey about peacebuilding. More…
Read MoreEnding the LRA…or preparing for a CIA-style strike?
So the House yesterday passed a bill aimed at ending the fight by the Lord’s Resistance Army, the Ugandan rebel group that spent a…
Read MoreTastes like terrorism!
“As another day passed with Mr. [Faisal] Shahzad talking to investigators about the car bomb he had admitted driving into Times Square on Saturday,…
Read MoreThings that are worth your time
Adam Hocschild’s article from Congo, about mining, which I blogged about earlier, is online. Read it. Amazing. “Africa to Appalachia,” Jayme Stone’s collaboration with…
Read MoreSharing the mission
This week, I start blogging at Change.org’s Global Poverty site. I hope you’ll come over, check out the site, and join in the dynamic…
Read MoreGood reads
While I’m distracted from writing by mundane daily life things, check out this stuff, which comes from the “Things I’m currently reading” list… Guernica…
Read MoreOn Haiti
Just a quick note to encourage those of you interested in what Haiti looks like to follow my friend Huascar Robles’ reporting. He is,…
Read MoreWhy lawyers for accused terrorists aren’t, er, terrorists
A piece I worked on during my last two months in the States just appeared on the CSM’s website. It’s about lawyers who defend…
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