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From here Note that despite Kagame's frequent protestations against foreign aid, his is the largest recipient by this measure on the...

Human Rights Watch posted a six-minute video on the urgent need to arrest Bosco Ntaganda three days ago; so far it's gotten 2,500 hits....

You may have heard that the World Bank just published a new report on #DRC predicting that growth will average seven percent for the next co...

( N.B., any similarity to the current scandale-du-jour is purely coincidental. ) The "Twittter-verse" erupted in a cacophony of...

A conference on conflict minerals at the Center for Global Development last week revealed that the gulf between advocates and critics of DF-...

Imagine you work in the development office of an NGO. Your job is to beg from the rich to give to the poor. Anywhere from a handful to sever...

Is this thing on? As some of you know, my blog has been having technical problems for a while. If you can, please tweet or email me at dar...

Tatiana Carayannis, over at the World Peace Foundation , has written an interesting article urging us all to think more clearly about the na...

For all I know Felix Salmon is one of the most brilliant financial journalists out there. But his piece yesterday pairing Mike Daisey’s fra...

I don't know when, exactly, the TED talks went from being nerd cool to being the nerd musical; perhaps they always were, but at some po...