Posts Tagged ‘central african republic’
Not sure how to feel about your despot? He’ll tell you.
Graeme Wood has a freakin’ pitch-perfect piece on the Central African Republic in Foreign Policy’s failed states issue. It’s old news to those of you with internet that’s not powered by hamsters, but over here, I just got it to download. There are so many things that are right about it, both in tone and [...]
Stay calm, Chadians. Stay calm.
The UN will withdraw peacekeepers from Chad, which Amnesty International will put thousands of displaced persons and refugees at risk. Chad says it will protect those displaced persons and refugees. It promises. VOA, which published the article I link to, ran this Reuters photo, in what was I can only a guess an attempt to [...]
On being on the other end of stereotype
There are a lot of ridiculous assumptions Americans hold, wittingly or not, about Africa. That it’s a country. That it’s always at war. That its people are all poor, starving and sick, and usually all of the above. We also tend to assume that Africans are illiterate. So there was a bit of collective cosmic [...]
How to bring peace to Africa
Okay, I have no idea. That’s a teaser, one designed especially for Twitter. Sometimes, it takes a bit of cyberwhoring to get a click or two… I actually have no idea how to bring peace anywhere, but I want to know. Which is why I’m spending these coming months wandering around Africa for the Pulitzer [...]
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 are getting dicey. Let’s start with Rwanda, because it’s all over the news. I’m not there at the moment, but that never stops the New York Times from writing vague stories [...]
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