Friday, June 27, 2008

A Glittering Demon: Mining, Poverty and Politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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A Glittering Demon: Mining, Poverty and Politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Michael Deibert, Special to CorpWatch June 26th, 200...

POLITICS: Is Democracy Dangerous in Multi-ethnic Societies?

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POLITICS: Is Democracy Dangerous in Multi-ethnic Societies? An interview with Frances Stewart, Oxford University Professor of Development E...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Why I am not running by Morgan Tsvangirai

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(Note: Today I am doing something that I rarely do on this blog: Reposting verbatim text that first appeared elsewhere. Given the current si...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

POLITICS-ETHIOPIA : A Tangled Political Landscape Raises Questions About African Ally of the U.S.

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POLITICS-ETHIOPIA : A Tangled Political Landscape Raises Questions About African Ally of the U.S. By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service AD...

Q&A: Ethiopia's Urban Poor Cannot Afford To Eat

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Q&A: Ethiopia's Urban Poor Cannot Afford To Eat Interview with Abera Tola, Director of Oxfam's Horn of Africa regional office I...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

EU Seeks to Subdue Competitive China

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TRADE-AFRICA: EU Seeks to Subdue Competitive China By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, May 15, 2008 (IPS) - With the ascen...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

A few photos from the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Extraction from chaos?

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Extraction from chaos? By Michael Deibert Foreign Direct Investment April 10, 2008 Embattled by war and corruption but laden with large depo...
Friday, May 09, 2008

Back from South Africa

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I returned to Kinshasa from Johannesburg the other days, after what was, for me, a highly instructive and enjoyable two weeks in South Afri...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008

Portrait

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My friend Eve Sibley painted a portrait of me when I was still living in New York which I just happened upon online. Not a bad likeness, a...
Sunday, May 04, 2008

RIGHTS: In South Africa, Zimbabwean Refugees Find Sanctuary and Contempt

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RIGHTS: In South Africa, Zimbabwean Refugees Find Sanctuary and Contempt By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, May 4, 2008 (I...

"We Mustn't Think as South Africans That We Have Won the Day": An interview with Paul Verryn

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"We Mustn't Think as South Africans That We Have Won the Day": An interview with Paul Verryn Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG,...
Thursday, May 01, 2008

DRC: With Rebel Leader's Indictment, a Tentative Step to Accountability

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DRC: With Rebel Leader's Indictment, a Tentative Step to Accountability By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, May 1, 2008...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Hillbrow Vibes

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Having arrived in Johannesburg on Monday, I have thus far found the city, despite its significant social ills, to be a vibrant, dynamic face...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

HEALTH-DRC: Water Everywhere, But Is It Safe To Drink?

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HEALTH-DRC: Water Everywhere, But Is It Safe To Drink? By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service KINSHASA, Apr 24, 2008 (IPS) - The rain falls ...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

The Fruits of Reform

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The Fruits of Reform Foreign Direct Investment Mozambique, whose history has been blighted by a long liberation struggle and years of civil ...
Friday, April 18, 2008

On the passing of Aimé Césaire

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Aimé Césaire, the Martiniquen writer who represented the best tradition of the author as public intellectual, passed away yesterday in Fort-...

POLITICS-DRC: Cautious Calm Settles Over War-scarred Ituri Region

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POLITICS-DRC: Cautious Calm Settles Over War-scarred Ituri Region By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service BOGORO, April 17, 2008 (IPS) - Wad...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Two photojournalist websites of note

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Though the trend in the news business these days is to an ever-more streamlined (i.e. mercilessly gutted ) approach to news gathering, parti...
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Michael Deibert responds to Peter Hallward

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Michael Deibert responds to Peter Hallward On my blog last month, I posted a lengthy review of the book D amming the Flood: Haiti, Aristid...