Posts Tagged ‘conflict’
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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