The Eastern Congo is in chaos. Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) has launched a new multimedia project called Condition: Critical which will be updated regularly with news, videos and photos from the Kivu region.
One of the features of the site is a film that highlights the conflict, and features some very powerful images [...]

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An amazing story of forgiveness and embrace from Rwanda. Thanks to the friends who notified me of it.
I have seen the power of the “gacaca” courts the article mentions. I am so glad to hear stories like this coming out. While the dominant narrative of Rwanda will likely always be the genocide, [...]

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For those of you who don’t know me, or my family background, you may not know of our connection to Zimbabwe. I won’t go in to it here, except to say I have many family members still living there, trying their best to live a normal life while the country goes, literally, to hell [...]

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Another shot from my “Least Interesting” photo set.
This was taken in Ruhengeri, Rwanda back in 2005. Sara and I stopped off in this town for a few days while on our research trip, and we checked into this “motel.” Ruhengeri used to be the main stopping off point for people going on gorilla [...]

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It’s April 5, again. Tomorrow marks 14 years since the beginning of the Rwandan genocide.
Never again.

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March 19 is my Dad’s 63rd birthday. His dad died when he was 63 years and 10 days old, back in 1972. Here’s hoping he breaks the streak!

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Matt Powell, who you’ll find linked over in my “Blogroll,” has started a photoblog for his work in Sudan. Head over to “Picturing Sudan” and see some of the fantastic images he’s sharing, and the stories that accompany them.

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As I mentioned last week, Flickr is a great tool for sharing your photographs. There are also some very cool third-party websites that can help improve your Flickr experience. One that I use is Dopiaza.org, specifically the “Set Manager.” It automatically creates a set (a group of photos) based on certain criteria. [...]

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Selected images from Northern Uganda.

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Some brightly colored bolts of cloth hanging outside a shop in Gulu.

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