Posts Tagged ‘Congo’
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” — [...]
Seven rebels killed in DRC, or "Sometimes peacekeepers do shoot people."
In catching up on events that happened in the world while I was traveling from one part of it to another, I hit a Reuters report that the United Nations killed seven FDLR earlier this week (though not with guns, as my misleading headline implies. With rockets. Little ones, presumably.)
Here’s how it apparently [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Truth vs. soundbites
I’m only just getting my head wrapped around the ENOUGH project’s new Congo campaign well…enough (damn them for making such bad puns inevitable!) to wade into the blogospherical dissent over it, but this entertaining hypothetical chant from the folks over at CongoResources is a nice riff on the trade-offs advocacy orgs always face between how [...]
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