Posts Tagged ‘conflict’
Rwandans in Congo? “They’re all around us”
Here’s a terrific article by Michelle Faul of the Associated Press about the sort of thing that’s often rumored in quiet dinner conversation in the Great Rift Valley region. Well, we keep our voices down in my part of the valley, anyway.
It’s got all my favorite elements — land, conflict, cows — in terrifying combination.
Don’t [...]
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 [...]
It's never the women, is it? Always the pigs.
The New Yorker is in some hot water over Jared Diamond’s article last year,about Papua New Guinea. Diamond, you may recall, is a Pulitzer- and MacArthur winner, the man behind the tome that is Guns, Germs and Steel. I haven’t read the story, but Forbes summarizes it like this:
…Jared Diamond describes blood feuds [...]
Vox Populi. Maybe, sort of.
For all the information swirling around about Congo these days, this map is interesting. It’s from Ushahidi, which means “testimony” in Swahili, a site designed to aggregate crisis information sent by ordinary people, via emails or–here’s the specialness–SMS. Because cell phones are ubiquitous here, and virtually nothing else is, the SMS is the [...]
The new thing in resource-fueled conflict: cows
Here’s a story I reported during my trip to Goma, about which I know I owe you all lusciously interesting tidbits. I’ll try to oblige soon.
In Congo, a new twist on ‘blood diamonds
Warring rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo are stealing and selling livestock to finance a conflict sparked by spillover from [...]
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