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Activists: Sudan policy review good on paper. Now what?

Oct 19, 2009
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,...

Saudi Arabia vs Polio

Sep 30, 2009
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...

17 peacekeepers killed in Suicide attack in Somalia

Sep 18, 2009
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. ...

Vote for the next USAID administrator

Aug 28, 2009
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...

What about MC Ban?

Aug 28, 2009
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...

The Afghanistan Speech will be Tweeted

Dec 1, 2009
Live-tweeting the Afghanistan speech on twitter.com/undispatch Here.

Nomination hearing for USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah today, UPDATES

Dec 1, 2009
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding its nomination hearing on USAID Administrator-designate Rajiv Shah today. UPDATES The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding its nomination hearing on USAID...

Morning Coffee - 1 December 2009

Dec 1, 2009
Summary:  What's brewing: Obama expected to send another 30,000+ troops to Afghanistan; Honduras' new president faces crisis of legitimacy; UN slams Swiss minaret ban, and more... Top...

A photographer's profile of world leaders at the UN Summit

Nov 30, 2009
During the UN General Assembly in September, a photographer captures stunning images of heads of state. During the UN General Assembly in September, New Yorker photographer Platon set up a small studio right outside the "green room"...

Emissions reductions does not have to cost economic growth in the developing world

Nov 30, 2009
Though skeptics question the effect of emissions reductions on economic development, India can show how these interests are not mutually exclusive. Under the Kyoto Protocol developing nations are expected to make submissions called...


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