Archive for the ‘DRC’ Category
Maybe if I took Anna Wintour to Congo for a Vogue cover shoot, I could get my expenses covered?
The New York Post says today: According to sources, Wintour’s European entourage, which is usually about 10 people including her creative director, fashion director, several top stylists, European market editor, beauty editor and Publisher Tom Florio, is estimated to cost the company close to $250,000 in travel expenses. Though there is one fundamental flaw in [...]
Et cetera, and some good reading
The list of things to blog about is long, but time has been short lately, and this blog, if I would let it, would turn into a full-time non-paying job, like so much else in journalism these days. I’m resisting, but it’s hard. Meanwhile, I’m starting to gather ideas for a redesign–or rather, a first [...]
How do you get from a dusty refugee camp to Atlanta, anyway?
This year, the Christian Science Monitor has been following Bill Clinton Hadam and his family, as LBC–”Little Bill Clinton,” as the series and the boy it’s named after are affectionately known–goes through third grade in an Atlanta charter school where all the students are refugees like him. The series started with the family’s memory of [...]
New plan for fixing Congo (speaks only French)
The International Crisis Group just released a report recommending a new plan for dealing with the FDLR in Congo. It sounds a little like this: A comprehensive strategy has to be developed, involving the Congo government, Rwanda, MONUC and the other international facilitators that joined in Nairobi declaration, including the African Union, the U.S. and [...]
Kinshasa's Symphony Orchestra
I was so excited to see this today on Wronging Rights, who got it via Congo Resources. There was a really nice guy who ironed guests’ laundry at the hotel where I stayed in Kinshasa. As we waited for him to finish up the last shirt, he said to my friend, “You remind me of [...]
What are Congolese troops shooting at now? UN peacekeepers
The FARDC is taking on MONUC…but not the FDLR. Which is, of course, exactly the opposite of what is supposed to happen. From BBC: UN base in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been fired on by army soldiers in a dispute over pay. It is the latest in a string of mutinies in North [...]
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