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africaSouth Africa continues to gear up for the World Cup. While some fear crime or terrorism FIFA and the local organizing committee have finally said enou…
africaThis just in: Land disputes are a cause of many difficulties in Africa.
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africaThe Committee of Experts Investigation of the April 6, 1994 plane crash of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana is complete and you can access The Mu…
africaBecause I honestly do not even know what to say about this:
. . . I’ll let the BBC do my talking for me:
South Africa’s ruling African Na…
globalengagement
One of the more surprising elements of Obama’s first State of the Union address was the way in which he addressed clean energy initiatives:
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foodcrisisThe challenge of delivering food to Haitians recovering from the January 12th earthquake has taken a new dimension. More food aid and locally grown f…
iranIranian filmmakers- despite heavy restrictions - have over the years provided an intriguing and provocative look at Iran’s dynamic social, relig…
humanrightsThe world capital of libel is London. Not that there is a list or anything. And people are still finding imaginative ways of making money, despite t…
iranOn January 24th, a Russian-made Iranian passenger aircraft carrying 157 passengers and 13 crew crash-landed in northeastern Iran injuring at least 46 …
corruptionIn follow-up to my Haiti post, Transparency International has just released a handbook on humanitarian aid. Very interesting and worth checking out.
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music
This morning NPR’s Steve Inskeep profiled the music of Afghanistan’s Ammad Zahir as part of the program’s 50 Great Voices series, w…
globaleconomyWrap-up of Davos World Economic Forum 2010, from FT's Money Supply blog.…
migrationNews of irregular immigration into the United States often focuses on those trying to cross the border via land. Huge fences and security cameras moni…
afghanistanI apologize for my absence as I’ve been in the middle of an apartment move that made me wish I was literally in a ‘graveyard of empires…
humanrightsThe Christian Science Monitor carried an interesting feature yesterday about the prospects and potential for land reform in Africa. In it corresponden…
iraqWith elections to the Iraqi Parliament looming on the horizon (set for March 7, 2010), my next few posts will focus on aspects of political parties, s…
climatechangeWe’re up in Cambridge, Mass., and were over at the MIT Museum yesterday. One exhibit looked at the work of Daniel Nocera and his colleagues on …
electionIn 1968, an astute adviser to Richard Nixon saw a hand-made placard at a campaign rally. “Bring Us Together Again,” the simple message re…
africaEgypt has won the Africa Cup of Nations on a header in the 85th minute. They have become the first-ever nation to win the tournament three times in a …
middleeastOk. It is official. There are more urgent matters than mediating between Israel and its neighbors. For ten years now, the U.S. has exercised little to…