January 2010
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UN's Plan to Curb Somali Piracy, With a Twist →
Bosasso is a dusty port town in the Puntland State of Somalia. Farming is virtually impossible across this part of the African Horn, so the economy is focused on camel and goat herding,…
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Afghanistan: Fresh Data Sources →
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Afghanistan: Behind the London Conference →
Las chicas guapas vuelven a sonreír →
El Palacio Presidencial de Haití se asemeja ahora a una enorme tarta de merengue que se ha desvanecido sobre su bandeja. La cúpula central se escurre entre las dos laterales, más pequeñas y ahora…
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Afghan Women Ask Anti-War Left to Turn Right →
On Wednesday in London, an esteemed collection of Afghan women leaders met with the public in Britain’s House of Commons to discuss the NATO and Karzai Administration’s war strategy for…
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Coping with Aid Bureaucracy Through Humor →
Now that we’ve come to terms with the enormous task ahead in Haiti — and DR Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, inner cities, and on and on — momentum will slow and motivations will buckle…
Coco McCabe: Haiti's entrepreneurs keep life... →
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Oxfam America’s Coco McCabe is one of several Boston-based colleagues in Haiti to help with the relief effort. Here’s her latest update, dated January…
New Life in a Shattered Community - Caroline... →
Less than two days after the earthquake which devastated Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, Marguerite Ulysse gave birth to a baby girl, Neika. The nearest hospital was destroyed….
Answers About New York’s Response to Haiti’s... →
Following is the first set of responses from Elsie St. Louis-Accilien, the executive director of Haitian-Americans United for Progress.
Thank you for taking the time to put me to the…
Haiti's recovery should start with cancelling its... →
Haiti’s recovery should start with cancelling its debt
Source: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Date: 28 Jan 2010
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Thousands find relief in fairway tent camp | The... →
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The scene could be taking place anywhere in Port-au-Prince - thousands of sweaty, dusty Haitians squeezed back-to-chest waiting for relief supplies that could…
La serpiente y la terapia de la solidaridad →
“¿Sabe usted lo que sucede cuando se produce un terremoto?”, pregunta Menard Meneles, una profesora de inglés que vive bajo una carpa improvisada a orillas de la iglesia de Santa…
Overwhelming generosity funds Oxfam’s immediate... →
Funds still needed to help Haiti recover and rebuild over years
International agency Oxfam said today that public generosity had secured enough money to fully fund its immediate emergency…
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AUDIO: Mark Fried explains the extreme threat rain... →
Download now or listen on posterous Voice_Message_Thursday_28_Jan_08_49PM_GMT.mp3 (765 KB) Mark begins with a simple explanation of a key innovation — handicap…
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A proposal: Making mining in the Kivus more... →
The Center on International Cooperation at New York University just published a concept paper I wrote with Steve Hege on mining in the Kivus. It’s a proposal for how to instill some accountability…
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Lubumbashi madness →
Lubumbashi has always been a world unto itself, a weird microcosm of Congolese politics. The city is one of the wealthiest in the country, due to its proximity to the largest mining ventures in the…
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A Nightmare Scenario for The London Conference →
The London Conference will be held today — Thursday, January 28, 2010. At this conference, the international community is coming together to fully align military and civilian resources behind an…
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'Hope for Haiti Now' Leads Album Sales →
“Hope for Haiti Now,” the download-only album of performances from the Haiti benefit telethon last Friday night, is No. 1 on this week’s Billboard chart, widely outselling Susan Boyle, Lady Gaga
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Aid Agencies Amplify Call for Civilian Delivery of... →
UN Dispatch reports from the London Conference on Afghanistan.
“We must ensure that development does not falter in Afghanistan,” Mercy Corps UK director Mervlyn Lee said in his opening…
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An Afghan perspective on London, Kabul conferences →
KABUL (PAN): The trust that most Afghans showed in international intervention and the optimism they had about their future after the fall of the Taliban regime are on the wane, says an independent research organisation based in Kabul.
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Afghan NGOs: The Angels are in the Details →
Today’s Afghan NGO conference - “An Alternative View: Afghan Perspectives on Development and Security” - was filled with brilliant, capable, and powerful minds proposing broad directions….
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Negotiating With the Taliban and Suspected War... →
From afar, it appears rather obvious that a democratic government of unity and reconciliation would rise in Afghanistan without the inclusion of enemies of its core values, namely…
VIDEO: Pan-African partners launch 'Africa for... →
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AUDIO: Oxfam's Haiti Country Director, Yolette... →
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the_story_958_Yolette_Etienne_.mp3 (23433 KB) One of the main worries in Haiti now is health and sanitation. One agency that works…
Oxfam water distribution in Haiti →
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Oxfam is providing clean drinking water, sanitation and shelter, currently aiming to reach more than 100,000 people in Haiti (27 Jan 2010).
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No fancy isms or twirling of letters, just the raw... →
This month for me will be remembered as the month of Haiti; when the world shook its earth and I pray may they find strength as the Haitian people strive to find their loved ones. Though it has…
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AUDIO: Mark Fried talks about Oxfam's work at the... →
Download now or listen on posterous Voice_Message_Tuesday_26_Jan_11_44AM_GMT.mp3 (612 KB) Oxfam’s Mark Fried has taken over where I left off. He posted an audio update…
Canceling Haiti’s Debt Is A Global Moral... →
Canceling Haiti’s Debt Is A Global Moral Obligation
By Gilbert Mercier NEWS JUNKIEPOST Jan 25, 2010 at 7:36 am
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Reconstruction in Haiti, what do we know from... →
By Duncan Green, Head of Research, Oxfam GB via the From Poverty to Power blog
The Haiti operation is moving rapidly from rescue to reconstruction . What major challenges can we expect to…
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Political and security developments in North Kivu →
There was quite a bit of commotion in the Kivus this past week. Abbe Malu Malu arrived in Goma to chair a Comite national de suivi (follow-up committee for the peace deal) with the armed groups….
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A new FDLR leadership? →
It appears that the FDLR are beginning to re-organize after the end of Kimia II operations. For several days now, meeting have been held in southern Masisi territory to determine how they…
VIDEO: Oxfam joins call to cancel Haiti debt after... →
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Oxfam has urged foreign ministers to cancel Haiti’s debts, saying insisting on repayment would be “cruel and unnecessary”.
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Before we had no water, no soap | Oxfam... →
It was a relief to read the sign on the wall: no dead bodies after 3.30 pm. My watch showed it was 4pm. Thankfully, when I poked my head into the morgue at the Hôpital Universitē de l’Ētat…
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What’s the best way to rebuild Haiti? | Oxfam... →
Representatives from a dozen countries are meeting in Montreal today to start the discussion about how to rebuild Haiti. Oxfam released its recommendations in a briefing paper called …
Aid Agencies Re-Evaluate Demand for Security... →
Recently Change.org blogger Michael Bear introduced me to Madeleine Kingston, a researcher for the European Interagency Security Forum (EISF). Ms. Kingston just completed a report in…
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Congo Body Count Statistics Taken Out of Context →
You’ve heard the numbers. Congo loses 2.3 million in civil war; later: 5.4 million deaths ‘98-09; worst war on record since the world war; chaos, madness, and other serious but difficult to…
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Reuniting and Replenishing the Two Afghanistans →
We have been coming to terms for some time with the many dualities of society. It evokes neither query nor sigh that vital aspects of Afghanistan’s future may be decided by a group made up…
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Downing Street's Afghan Agenda →
This week’s London Conference on Afghanistan will largely be a forum for the UK to confront its domestic worries about West Asia, but it will also confront vital challenges important to…
Save the Children Partners with AmeriCares to... →
Save the Children and AmeriCares have partnered to bring medical aid to more than 85,000 Haitians affected by the earthquake.
Westport,-based Save the Children’s emergency response team in…
Mark Hyman, MD: Haiti Journal Day 8: The Tsunami... →
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There will be a second wave, there must be a second wave and it must come now or it will be too late. There have already been too many tragic deaths in the…
Clinton cites exodus effect from Haitian capital |... →
MONTREAL (AP) — An effective recovery strategy for Haiti must take into account a sudden rush of thousands of quake survivors from Port-au-Prince into the countryside, where the economy…
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A Deal with the Taliban? →
Ahmed Rashid reviews “My Life with the Taliban” by Abdul Salam Zaeef in the New York Review of Books
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Elin Plantin, 65 años "Desde el terremoto, tomo... →
Elin Plantin está sentado en una piedra frente a los cuatro palos y varias telas que son hoy su casa. Es mayor, aunque parece un anciano. Flaco, piel curtida y barba blanca. Se resbala…
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Loritz Pierre, 36 años "No tenemos agua, no... →
La iglesia de Santa Caterina -lo que queda de ella- permanece en pie en lo alto de una de las colinas de Gressier, a las afueras de Puerto Príncipe. La pared posterior al altar ha…
El chico malencarado de la gorra →
La barra de la terraza del Club Petionville de Puerto Príncipe ya no es lo que era. Hace las veces ahora de una especie de departamento de administración de un hospital de campaña levantado en…
El trabajo de Cáritas en Haití →
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Video Snapshot: Oxfam delivers water in... →
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Update BBC tracks Haiti Aid delivery - arrives in... →
By Gary Duffy BBC News, Santo Domingo The BBC is tracking aid from Oxfordshire, including these wheelbarrows It was the early hours of the…
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Afghanistan Moves Parliamentary Elections to... →
Afghanistan’s electoral body announced yesterday that parliamentary elections originally scheduled for May 22 will be delayed until September.
Afghanistan’s electoral body announced…