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John Boonstra responds to our own Julia Keyser’s analysis of the “re-hatting” of peacekeeping missions by the United Nations, noting the “predictable double-dip of disappointment” that occurs when regional forces and then UN blue helmets successively fail to keep non-existent peace in Sudan or Somalia.
Tara Sonenshine, who is very savvy about the media, has a good post up on Huffington about the continued economic woes of the newspaper business and its impact on foreign reporting.
In its waning weeks, the Bush Administration appears to be feeling a new urgency in dealing with Darfur. The administration just announced a new emergency airlift of vehicles and supplies to the UN Mission in Darfur.
A recent New Yorker article, “Lives of the Saints,” by Jonathan Harr, details the work of the United Nations Refugee Agency (also known as UNHCR) in eastern Chad.
Nicholas Kristof’s recent New York Times op-ed, “A New Chance for Darfur,” underlines why a new Obama administration is well placed to take “serious steps” to end the crisis in Darfur.
Although Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony thinks he is a messiah and claims to be a fundamentalist Christian, he apparently had no qualms about ordering his notoriously brutal rebel army to commit horrific acts of death and destruction against local Congolese populations as the LRA fled their outpost in Congo’s Garamba National Park following the launch of “Operation Lightening Thunder,” joint offensive begun in mid-December by the armies of Uganda, Congo, and southern Sudan.
We here at Enough love gorillas, elephants and people. As part of its Planet in Peril series, CNN sent correspondent Lisa Ling to southeastern Chad to report on the illegal poaching of elephants in the region.
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