November 2011
3 posts
This extract is from Al Jazeera. Views expressed are the author’s own.
An air raid on a camp packed with displaced women and children has killed at least five people and wounded 45 others, including 31 children, according to the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
The Kenyan military admitted carrying out Sunday’s attack on the town of Jilib, where the camp for internally displaced...
This article is from The Guardian Global Development by Tracy McVeigh. Views expressed are the author’s own.
Fears are growing that the forthcoming elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo will trigger a new wave of violence, amid reports that militias are re-forming.
One of Congo’s leading peacemakers, Henri Ladyi – who has been called “Africa’s Schindler” for his work rehabilitating...
Literacy Programs for Afghan Police Under Threat... →
The State Department today announced that it is halting a $60 million payment to UNESCO that is due in November because of decades old prohibition against funding any UN entity that accepts…
October 2011
77 posts
Amb. Rice: Leading from behind? That’s 'whacked.' →
So, what does Susan Rice, the
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, really think of the so-called doctrine
“leading from behind.”
“That’s just a whacked out phrase,” Rice told Turtle…