Archive for the ‘DRC’ Category
Well, that’s one way to deal with a rapist…
From the today’s reporting, at the Open Society Institute’s event “Accountability for Sexual Violence: Innovative Strategies at Work in Africa.”
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, cofounder and executive director, African Women’s Development Fund: “….She found a man standing over her daughter, in the process of raping her…She had a machete in her hand. So she did what she had to [...]
African poverty is falling. (Seriously.) Maybe it’s the tourism? (Doubt it.)
The ridiculously digitally prolific Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution points to a new paper from an MIT-Columbia team of authors who’ve found that across the board, poverty is falling in Africa. Not just in certain kinds of countries, with certain advantageous histories or certain huge amounts of minerals…everywhere. (In a sentence that has to have [...]
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 in the “special report on human rights,” but Adam Hochschild’s article on the DRC — “Blood and Treasure: Why one of the world’s richest countries is also one of the poorest” — [...]
Actually, 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, Nick Kristof” email, I mentioned I’d face a similar, though totally unscrutinized, decision in Liberia last year. He replied that he had too — and he’d not used a girl’s name, [...]
When 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 up to another email from Nick Kristof. Thanks, Nick, for taking the time to talk with me about this. Readers might want to see Part II.
There was a bit of a [...]
"…Okay, now tell me where he put his hands"
This is, unhappily, the sequel to my earlier taken-down on major media coverage of rape in conflict. Turns out I have a little bit of a thing about this…
So the New York Times’ new West Africa guy is covering the violence in Guinea. (Missed it? Here’s the Twitter version: Government soldiers killed [...]
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