Monday, March 24, 2008

Marcus Bleasdale's Rape of a Nation

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The photographer Marcus Bleasdale , who has spent eight years covering the brutal conflict here in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the ...
Friday, March 21, 2008

POLITICS-DRC: In a Governmental Vacuum, Yearnings for a Lost Empire

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POLITICS-DRC: In a Governmental Vacuum, Yearnings for a Lost Empire By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service MATADI, Western DRC, Mar 21, 200...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

A Review of Peter Hallward’s Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment

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A Review of Peter Hallward’s Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment By Michael Deibert I. Introduction ...
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Friday, March 14, 2008

A few thoughts from Kinshasa

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Kinshasa is an ungentle place. The other day, a young shegue I know, who always displays the most upbeat demenour despite what must be a lif...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

33 degrees at 21:00

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Walking home through the poorly-lit, potholed streets of my neighborhood here in Kinshasa last night after picking up some Indian takeout fo...
Sunday, March 02, 2008

The Gazan Vespers

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Chatting on the internet with a friend from Ramallah today, she wrote to me that, watching the slaughter currently taking place in Gaza, wh...
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Saturday, March 01, 2008

A Humanitarian Disaster Unfolds in Eastern DRC

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A Humanitarian Disaster Unfolds in Eastern DRC By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service KIBUMBA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mar 1, 2007 (IP...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Note from North Kivu

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We drove north from Goma along the road to Rutshuru, along a ribbon of concrete that wound towards the Ugandan border. To the west loomed a...
Thursday, February 14, 2008

Thursday night reporter's notebook from Kinshasa

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A year ago at this time - Valentine’s Day - I was about mid-way through a brief stint living in Bombay, a city of some 20 million souls str...
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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Bienvenue à Kin La Belle

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A few impressions from my first days in Kinshasa. The glorious music - soukous, rumba congolese, ndombolo - that is pumping from everywhere...
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Saturday, February 02, 2008

Things I will miss about Paris

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As I prepare to depart for an eight month assignment in Kinshasa this evening, I wanted to take a moment and pause to remember some of the g...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

A new Lebanon-based blog of note

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My friend and fellow journalist Irina Prentice has a new blog written from her home in Beirut featuring her articles and observations about ...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

Obama's election night party in Columbia, South Carolina.

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There are about 300 million reasons why I like this picture.

Fidel's view

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My review of Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography, as told by Fidel Castro to Ignacio Ramonet, is the lead book review in today...