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Learning from Darfur /
Bir-ed-dik, “the cockerel’s well” in Arabic, is a small village at the far north of Darfur, up where Sahel meets Sahara, territory controlled by rebels since 2003 when war broke out with the Sudan government. Strategically important, its wadi holds two wells dug in the sands after each rainy season to [...]
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The Rich and the Desperate /
After years of poking uninvited into other people’s misery, Gary Knight and I, co-editors of dispatches, had the routine down. But this place was particularly scary. Acrid coal smoke tinged the air with forbidding brown. Hostile eyes stared from behind windows opaque with dirt. We turned a corner to find basic [...]
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Why Aid Fails /
Several years ago in Afghanistan, I chatted over a drink with a U.S. Agency for International Development coordinator. We were at Gandamak Lodge, one of dozens of guesthouses that popped up since 2001 as 3,000 expatriates converged on Kabul to take advantage of a recovery effort costing well over $20 billion. [...]
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