Nate Henn, 25, was one of the victims in yesterday’s bombing in Kigali, Rwanda of a rugby field where the World Cup final was being televised on a giant screen. Nate listed himself as a 2007 graduate of the University of Delaware. When I was on the Inquirer’s editorial board writing about Northern Uganda from about [...]

And thank goodness she did, human gaffes and all.
Secretary of State Clinton will always be a lightning rod for people who are at odds with her or her husband, former President Bill Clinton. I remember back when Bill Clinton was making his first run for president, and there were wild stories out there that said [...]

It’s sad to see an apparatus of peacemaking, the office of the U.N. special envoy to northern Uganda, close. But why should the United Nations keep it open considering that Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, has proven himself - once again - to be an unreliable peace partner. The charade ought to end that [...]

Stef Schiffer commented on my previous post about what Concern Worldwide was doing for World Malaria Day, arguing that bed nets was just a Western feel-good initiative. The comment included this site, with a well-done video.  Thanks to Stef for telling me about it. The people on the video, many of them first- and second-generation Africans, make a good [...]

Check out this report from the Brookings-Bern project on Internal Displacement, which I haven’t read yet because it just came out.