Posts Tagged ‘Congo’
Okay, activists, here's your new problem: Congo is in the media, but not fixed. Now what?
I don’t have data on this–maybe my new heartthrob Ryan C Briggs can help–but I’ve just come across a trope I’m tired of. I acknowledge that I have a tendency to start denying the truth of tropes when I tired of hearing them. Usually that’s when I pick up the phone and do some good [...]
Postpone that volcano hike, maybe?
On top of all the displacement, rebel attacks, and other insecurities, eastern Congo is apparently due for a volcano eruption. The good news? There’s not a whole lot of lava in the risky volcanoes these days. The bad news? An eruption could also ignite the massive pocket of deadly methane gas below Lake Kivu. That’s [...]
Pulitzers Take II: Congo wins (sort of)
So I took my Pulitzer-day swipe at newspaper publishers yesterday, and today I am in slightly better humor and want to congratulate Lynn Nottage on her Pulitzer for “Ruined,” a play about sexual violence in Congo. We in the West may not stop these things, but at least we have the good sense to give [...]
Editorial Choices II, or, Good job, Parade, for not making rape victims all victim-y
Er, sort of. Parade Magazine is circulated in local American newspapers and claims something like 40 gajillion readers. It’s seriously huge, and pretty mainstreamy, but they do a lot of “check out this thing in the world and think about it” stuff. Here’s what’s interesting about this week’s issue: The main story is the World’s [...]
Congo 101, or "Can't you clap?"
This has got to be the best quote yet to run in anyone’s Congo stories. From Stephanie McCrummen, who has been doing stellar work from this region for the Washington Post for years; she visited a town where a Congolese politician was announcing the Rwandan troops’ arrival to help Congolese soldiers. To a quiet crowd, [...]
UN updates, and a kink fix
In case you were desperate to read the story I posted the wrong link for, here it is: “Rwanda-Congo move isolates UN mission” This story emerged out of nowhere, in conversations with people for a completely different story, about the arrest of Nkunda and what’s in all this for Rwanda. No one at the UN [...]
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