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The End 10 Nov 2010 | 05:48 am
This blog no longer exists. It was fun while it lasted, and I hoped some of you enjoyed it and found it interesting, but this is it. However, I won't be disappearing entirely. I am now involved in a ...
Do you want the truth or something beautiful? 30 Sep 2010 | 12:16 am
A guest post, this one, because I can't say it better than this article, and you should all read it. Harry Verhoeven is an exceptionally clever and astute reader of the Great Lakes, and also a thoroug...
Tweeting Rape 24 Sep 2010 | 09:08 am
Yes. You did read that properly. I'm going to try really hard to be calm about this, but I suspect I won't succeed. The facts: a reporter called Mac MacLelland, of Mother Jones (which I had hitherto ...
Swimming lessons, and term limits 20 Sep 2010 | 03:08 am
I shall return to the report later, but for the moment, wanted to share this beautiful illustration of the utter bloody randomness of human history; the story of how swimming lessons saved Taiwan. Mo...
Complicating factors 18 Sep 2010 | 02:51 am
Paul Kagame's visit to London was rather overshadowed by another visit you may have heard something about. In the spirit of things not paid enough attention to, here are two things which should give p...
Rwanda responds (and so do I) 13 Sep 2010 | 10:27 pm
You can download the response of the Rwandan government to the mapping report here, and the Congolese government's response here. As you can see, they don't like it. Two hundred and twenty Congolese ...
The leaked report: commentary 4 Sep 2010 | 03:11 am
President Paul Kagame will be sworn in as President for a second term on Monday. I don’t talk to him that often, but I suspect he will not be looking forward to it as much as he’d hoped. I’ve blogged ...
Bare facts 4 Sep 2010 | 02:14 am
A report has been leaked. A claim has been made. A certain word has been used. You all know what I am talking about. From me: no commentary, no interpretation, no exegesis. For now, just the facts.....
Kissing, Saffer politics, and the African party 23 Aug 2010 | 11:29 pm
Now, I know you don't all enjoy annoying conservatives as much as I do, but we might just manage to agree on this one. Stellenbosch may be one of the last places in South Africa, if not the world, whe...
"New trends" 20 Aug 2010 | 05:26 am
Very nice piece by Lars Waldorf and Scott Straus over here. Lars Waldorf is one of the many HRW staff that don't go back to Rwanda, if you get my drift (and he never replies to my emails. But other th...
