Tag archive for ‘congo’
International News Round Up: Mugabe’s Diamond Fever
If diamonds are forever, so is the pain they cause. Though this strain of diamond fever—with its corresponding blood diamonds—doesn’t call Sierra Leone and Guinea home, it does bear a strong resemblance to the one(s) found there a decade ago. This time, however, it’s hit Zimbabwe, as Mugabe’s sickening government looks to one of the [...]
International News Roundup
Suicide Bombs Just Won’t Stop Afghanistan took another grieving day today after a Taliban suicide bomber packed a tanker truck chock full of explosives and detonated it in Kandahar’s temporary council office. Felt throughout the city, the bomb killed six people, wounded 40 and caused five houses to cave in on themselves. Few newspapers or [...]
Mediating catastrophe
Editors tell me the photos don’t look like Africa. My subjects run, thinking they’re going to be pasted onto a UNICEF poster.
Rapes like rustling leaves: a Congo notebook
You know the storm’s coming when the wind hits the trees. In Congo rape is like rustling leaves.
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