Blog Roundup
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Pocketless trousers as a strategy to fight corruption in Nepal (h/t Judah Grunstein).
Lay off trashing the moon landings, okay? It was cool to walk on the moon.
Caterpillars taking over West Africa are nothing; the latest insectine invasion is of Argentine super ants, who’ve got their eyes (?) set on colonizing the entire world.
And…don’t forget the food crisis in Africa.
Linked Up: Tabloids, unsightly bridges, and animal ambulances
The UN really needs to get some new reading material for its buildings in central Liberia…
Dresden chooses reducing traffic over remaining a UNESCO World Heritage Site
I’m not sure which would be my preferred means of emergency desert medical transportation: a donkey ambulance, or a camel ambulance.
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A health problem you might not expect to find in Uganda: obesity.
The chairman of the (Nobel Prize-winning) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on why halting global warming is an environmental imperative — and how it can bring other benefits as well.
Um, CO2 not a pollutant? “With all due respect, are you kidding me?”
Linked Up: Bugs Bunny in Africa, Iran’s human rights, Trees for $$, and Ban halfway
Why we shouldn’t be surprised that a kid in Africa in the 1980′s grew up watching The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show.
Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi makes the worthwhile point that, while attention is focused on the Iranian elections, the country’s human rights record remains far below par.
Conserving trees for money can be a messy business.
Again from The Economist, a pretty even-handed report card marking the halfway point of Ban Ki-moon’s tenure.
(image from flickr user Steve Rhodes under a Creative Commons license)
Linked Up: People who may or may not be dead
A morbid topic, but…
A terrorist leader in Somalia? That’s what “the mood” around his brother’s house seems like.
A teenage Minnesotan who traveled to the same country last year and was under watch by the FBI. Reportedly.
18 people in Acapulco, Mexico, in a drug-related shooting? Yes, but “no tourists.”
The president of Gabon? No. Yes. Definitely.
(image of President Omar Bongo at the UN, 2005)
Linked Up: Cellbanks, Cubelarustine, NK Elephant, and A Pirate’s Life for Me
In Africa, cell phones cum banks?
If Cuba is like Palestine, and Belarus is “the Cuba of the East,” does that mean Palestine=Belarus?
North Korea as an headache-inducing elephant holding a gun in a room with several hostages in a house surrounded by police.
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The SC; HRC; DPRK; South Sudan
The SC: The Security Council today held its last consultations under the Council Presidency of ROK. Tomorrow, Russia will take over the rotating Presidency of the Security Council for March under Ambassador Vitaly Churkin.
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The SG; Mali; Middle East; Palestine
The SG: At the Fifth Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in Vienna, Austria today, the SG emphasized the role of youth in ensuring a “prosperous, equitable and peaceful future.”
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The SG; DRC; HRC; Palestinian Prisoner
The SG: In Ethiopia over the weekend, the SG is now in the United Arab Emirates. Today he met with Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, where the two discussed developments in the region, including Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, and in the Middle East Peace Process.
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