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High Speed Humanitarian Help
Written by Daniel Dickinson It is not often that a mission order for travel to a humanitarian crisis includes "canoe rapide" as the mode of transport, but a river journey into one of the remotest parts of the north-west of the Republic of Congo promised ju
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Why the media prefer natural disasters
If only Sri Lanka last year could have got a tenth of the media attention Haiti's now getting, lamented my friend who was working in Colombo at the time, "the public pressure might have saved so many lives." While no one would ever argue with the amount
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Eastern Congo: "Women are afraid they could be raped any night here"
Julie had just blown out the kerosene lamp and was lying in bed next to her husband when suddenly the stillness of the night was pierced by enraged shouts and the sound of a door being kicked open. Eight armed men burst into her house in a small village in
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Ten Humanitarian Headlines for 2010
It's now standard to wrap up the year with lists of ten: best films; greatest sporting moments; most influential people. In the spirit of a hopeful start to the New Year and decade, I propose a different sort of list: ten events we'd like to see in the wo
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