The IAEA doesn't just inspect nuclear sites (check out Matt's post on the "Department of Technical Cooperation"). Today is World Cancer Day.
Steve Clemons lands a really great interview with Kenyan Vice President Kalonzo "Steven" Musyoka, who was in Washington, D.C. this week for the National Prayer Breakfast. Anyone interested in Somalia and the politics of East Africa should spend the next 8 minutes watching this video.
The Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) is the lead American agency on humanitarian relief efforts like the one underway in Haiti. The problem is, it is just one office within the relatively small U.S.
The appellate Chamber of the International Criminal Court just handed down a decision on whether or not Sudan's president Omar al Bashir can be tried for genocide.
The United States Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair presented the annual threat assessment of the U.S. intelligence community to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. This is tucked into page 37:
The UN Refugee Agency posts a short documentary on the plight of migrants in the French port city of Calais. Well worth a watch.
Last week, the communications director for the past four Republican U.S. Ambassadors to the United Nations wrote a scurrilous attack on Susan Rice on Huffington Post. I call the attack "scurrilous," because as I noted at the time, the author completely mis-characterized the findings of a report to suggest that Rice was insufficiently engaged at the United Nations.
This document was just released by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. It contains information current as of January 31. As you can see, the needs are still great. Over 3 million people were affected by the earthquake. Over 112,000 people are confirmed killed and another nearly 200,000 injured.
There's been some recent criticism of Ambassador Rice suggesting that she is somehow neglecting her duties at the UN.