One article you SHOULD read on Congo
If you live in America, go to your nearest newsstand and buy the March issue of Mother Jones. You’ll probably like most of what’s…
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What does Africa have tons of that no one knows how to handle?
(Okay, that’s a little bit off, but these blog titles get tweeted now, so they have to be short and perky.) Land, of course!…
Read MoreHaitian voodoo is devil’s work, says Robertson. But Liberian gold? Bring it on.
The most interesting tidbit in Colum Lynch’s recent article, about Liberian warlord Charles Taylor’s American contacts, is “Blood Diamond”-mining Taylor apparently got Pat “Haiti-deserved-it”…
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And in weather news, this is why Appalachia thinks there’s no such thing as climate change
I’m literally under the weather here, between West Virginia and Washington, DC. New stuff in a few days. Meanwhile, please enjoy how much nicer…
Read MoreActually, Nick Kristof, this is a damn good point.
One more thing on this “Nick Kristof named a 9-year-old rape victim!” controversy. In my, “Thanks for your time in the middle of Congo,…
Read MoreWhen can you name rape victims? Nick Kristof replies
This is the first of a two posts about this. Mostly because I wrote this, went to bed at 2 am, then I got…
Read MoreGet your Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on
Women’s Voices for Change ran an extended version of my interview with the Liberian president. Here’s some of the material that didn’t make it…
Read MoreAn open apology to Liberia
UPDATE: Inexplicably, Vice has taken its apology letter down. Weird. But you can still find a cached version here. (Thanks, Google, the sometimes-benevolent big…
Read MoreI need to be working, but I can’t stop reading this
blog. This one, here. Sean’s in Liberia, and due to the malarial incident that has me riveted to the Internet and not to my…
Read MoreOne more casualty of the news biz
McClatchy pulls its reporter from Africa. Shashank Bengali has been doing some really fascinating work there, but the mother ship called him home. Or…
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