Human Rights Watch issued an amazing report today, titled “The Curse of Gold”, which focuses on the role of multinational mining companies in supporting the… Read More »Corporate Social Responsibility means, amongst other things, not arming militias
Sudan’s state prosecutor, Mohamed Farid, has ordered that Paul Foreman, head of the Dutch branch of Médecins Sans Frontières’s team in Sudan, be arrested in… Read More »Free Speech, Humanitarian Aid and Rape in Darfur
I’ve been reading the feed for the del.icio.us “ghana” tag for the past few months – it’s a great way to keep up with Ghana… Read More »The Ghanaian Success Story
In February 2005, Human Rights Watch sent researchers Dr. Annie Sparrow and Olivier Bercault to Chad to talk with refugees who’d fled from the bombings… Read More »Children’s Drawings from Darfur
A quick roundup of stories I’ll be watching over the weekend: Severo Moto, leader-in-exile of Equatorial Guinea’s main opposition party, has disappeared. A central figure… Read More »End of the week roundup
Engadget was good enough to feature the Geekcorps Mali Wifi-via-water-bottle antenna designed by Ian Howard and crew… but they didn’t credit Ian or Geekcorps. As… Read More »Waterbottle WiFi and Geekcorps Mali