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The dark night returns
Since reading Sebastian Junger’s wonderful expose on the issue last February in Vanity Fair, the situation surrounding the Nigerian Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has captivated me. In a region so strategically important to the United States, MEND has managed to single-handedly disrupt Chevron and Shell’s efforts to drain the [...]
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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