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Η Γιορτή για την Πρώτη Περίοδο μιας Κοπέλας στην Παπούα Νέα Γουινέα
Στην Bougainville, μια αυτόνομη νησιωτική περιοχή στην Παπούα Νέα Γουινέα, το πέρασμα του κοριτσιού στην ενηλικίωση συχνά γίνεται λόγος γιορτής.
New Cocaine Routes Are Ruining West Africa
At the end of June, the UN held its annual International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Yury Fedotov, head of the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime, gave a speech in which he mentioned that the cocaine trade in Africa is growing, "fueling...
Darfur’s Tribes are Killing One Another over Gold and Water
For the past seven months, warring tribes and armed factions have been waging an intense conflict in North Darfur over the region’s abundant gold mines and other natural resources.
On the Road with Libya’s Lions of the Desert
The smoke from Taha’s massive cone joint flowed through the cabin of our silver Hummer. The A/C was on high and blew long fingers of smoke to the back seat. We were all mellow. Taha’s aviator sunglasses hid his tiny black eyes as he cranked the volume...
World Peace Update
This week's World Peace Update doesn't veer too far from its default distress curve on the bruised and bloodied axes of planetary suffering: some Slovenians got really angry with their government, a group of Tunisian protesters were blinded, and the...
Word Clouding the General Assembly
Instead of writing a column attempting to analyze all the rhetoric thrown around at the UN, I have created a series of word clouds for nine of the most important, hyped, and just plain interesting speeches that have occurred so far during the General...
Sleeping Through the Slaughter
I used an embarrassing fuck-up by one of the world's most publicly accountable organizations as a bargaining tool to get a story. They reluctantly allowed me to join a massacre investigation mission in the most damaged part of what is, if their own...
Syrian Slaughter Update - Week Twelve
Don't worry everyone, al-Qaeda are here to make everything better!
Wikipedia, Azawad, and the Art of Internet Statecraft
Snubbed by the U.N., the Independent State of Azawad earned legitimacy online.