Know what’s great about failed states? They can’t police their borders, which makes them great places to smuggle drugs or weapons. International criminals and terrorists… Read More »Yet more fun with failed states

I’m a bad blogger. Between three weeks in India, followed immediately by travel to Boston and San Francisco, my aggregator is crowded with stories I’ve… Read More »Africa roundup

As most folks have already heard, a tsunami caused by an 8.9-richter earthquake has killed at least 20,000 people, many in Sri Lanka, but throughout… Read More »The Tsunami in South Asia

AllAfrica.com has an excellent interview with International Crisis Group’s John Prendergast, who visited rebel-held areas of Darfur recently along with Harvard’s Samantha Power. Prendergast explains… Read More »Interview with John Prendergast on Darfur

IRIN, an amazing UN project designed to provide information from conflict areas, has a brilliant set of quotes on media attention in a story today… Read More »Media attention and Sudan