Why we should be worried about genocide in Cote d’Ivoire
Cote d’Ivoire is going through an ugly time, and today was an especially ugly day. The UN thinks the incumbent president is hiding evidence…
Read MoreTurns out Ugandan women don’t want people grabbing their breasts
Imagine that! I saw this article about fifteen minutes after I blogged about Uganda’s urge to grope women on behalf of the national safety….
Read More…or are women (and their breasts) just weapons?
Female guests at Kampala hotels may be thoroughly groped in the days ahead — in the name of national security, of course. Says the…
Read MoreWomen as anti-corruption weapons
Not long ago, a short article I wrote for the Christian Science Monitor, about Rwanda’s majority female parliament, prompted a wee spat in this…
Read MoreJournalism gets tough in East Africa
The Committee to Protect Journalists is on the ball these days, raising warnings about threats against journalists in the DRC and in Kenya and…
Read MoreFrom the other side of Africa, the world through new eyes
One of my favorite readers* sent me this blog post recently, by a young woman who upped to Mali for a month after graduating…
Read MoreThe year’s last Great Lakes redux
Since Kenya has declared the Monday after Christmas a normal work day, I thought I’d pitch in and give a roundup colossal enough to…
Read MoreDo conflict minerals need Christmas?
Judging from my google alerts, the Christmas hook was what the conflict mineral campaign really needed to take off. If I open another story…
Read MoreDear Harvard Kennedy School kid, just what exactly are you reading?
I caught this New Times piece about a group of Harvard kids who toured Rwanda and met with the president. One of them told…
Read MoreOne refugee’s quest to get to America — and the new lives of the family that did
I’ve enjoyed my online silence, which did indeed make me more productive, but this piece jolted me back into the game… In 2009, the…
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