Posts Tagged ‘Rwanda’
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 of [...]
On paying money to look at poor people
In a moment of serendipity, I published an article this week at the Christian Science Monitor at exactly the same time its topic, poverty tourism, became a hot debate on Bill Easterly’s blog and at Huffington Post. The controversy started when Magatte Wade, a Senegalese entrepreneur, penned a long piece objecting to a tour that’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, [...]
Hold down the ESC key, Mr. Negroponte. Then it will all go away…
Here’s an interesting elegy to the One Laptop Per Child project, the much-lauded initiative of Nicholas Negroponte to bring computers to the world’s poor. Turns out it went bust: Last week OLPC laid off half of its staff. Sales of its XO Laptop to developing nations are far, far below initial projections in the millions; [...]
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 [...]
Rwanda and Congo: It's not what you think
In the last week, everything here has changed. Rwanda and Congo, former enemies, are the statecraft version of best buddies. Congo invited Rwandan troops across the border to chase Rwanda’s most hated rebel group, and in return Rwanda arrested one of its alleged erstwhile allies… Here’s a story I did about the arrest of the [...]
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