Activists are reviewing the Sudan policy review. They say it looks good on paper. The big lift, however, is building a broad multi-lateral coalition to implement the policy. Sudan activists John Prendergast of the Enough Project,...

We wrote about this last week, and The New York Times reported yesterday that Saudi Arabia is going to ask every haj pilgrim to Mecca to take the oral polio vaccine in front of Saudi health officials. This is excellent public health news, but it also...

This is a truly terrible development. Suicide bombers used white cars with UN markings to gain entry to an AMISOM base in Mogadishu. Dozens of people, including 17 African Union peacekeepers and the deputy force commander were killed in the attack. ...

We are now over eight months into the Obama administration and still--still-- there is no new head of the United States Agency for International Development.  Paul Farmer was in the running for  a...

Behind the curve a bit, I just discovered the Reuters blog Oddly Enough. And here I am commenting on the first post I read: Cool dudes, dashing in haberdashery…, the last installment of...