Thursday, January 19, 2017

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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

South Sudanese Refugees in North Uganda

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Hi, I am Barry Sesnan, quality adviser and co-founder of Education Base.   Education Base is a small organisation in Uganda which is...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

Relaunch in 2014

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Friday, August 10, 2012

FW: ethical question

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  In the recent kidnapping incident in Dadaab, where I am based just now, a driver was killed and another driver and staff member were shot,...
Friday, June 29, 2012

FW: NRC Dadaab

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  Hi all   I am here in Dadaab, Kenya doing an interim manager position for NRC; I came just eight days ago.   This morning there was a high...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Mandate for protection

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"UNISFA, the Ethiopian peacekeepers [in Abyei], have a mandate for civilian protection but they do not have a mandate for cattle protec...
Sunday, August 14, 2011

Reading and guarding

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In Eastern Chad night security guards, often quite qualified formally, welcome the chance to have some electricity and to study at night for...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Slates

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UNICEF in Chad, like in many other countries gives primary school kits both to Chadian schools and to schools in the camps for refugees fr...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The dangers of tarmacking roads!

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When life started coming back to Juba in 2005 (I was one of the first to arrive there by road) they said the motor-bike boys were the ca...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

Found in my old papers! School in a Box

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Hi friends and colleagues,   There has been occasional controversy on the first use of the term and concept of a ‘ School in a Box ’. ...
Friday, November 07, 2008

FW: For all you ex- or would be- AIDS activists

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Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old woman: "And what do you think is the best thing about being 104?" the reporter asked. She si...
Friday, July 11, 2008

Loath

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From a report: NGO officials are loath to put a figure on lives potentially saved or additional people helped if the money spent on ...