this & that

• It's all about land.
• Speaking of, who are the "refugees" returning to North Kivu?
  
• If they hadn't known Yar'Adua was gone, would Nigerians have known he was gone?
• The potential implications of an Atlantic bluefin export ban for piracy.
• Kagame goes to West Point.
  
• Interesting chart of African Growth Rates.
• Were Canadian funds wasted in inappropriate measures to aid Congolese rape victims?
  
• Julie Flint on what's going on in Darfur. Or, more accurately, on what's not going on.
• Eight myths about Darfur.
  
• Helpful thoughts on the Sudanese North-South referendum.
• Sudan says the Enough Project is wrong about Kony's location. Given that the guy moves around quite a bit, I'd guess this is a case in which everyone's right or wrong, depending on the time of the discussion.
  
• The King of Belgium will attend Congo's 50th anniversary celebration of independence this June.
• Warlordism is not a new phenomenon.
• Kristof and Gettleman: "the Henry Morton Stanleys of their age."
  
• A fantastic list of students' excuses.
• Great general advice for those of you thinking of going to grad school.
  
• HRI is taking abstracts.
• Even though killing off two fictional aid workers in a week when real aid workers died was in more than questionable taste, you have to admit that the Inepd send-off was pretty genius. An NGO loses financial solvency because of its decision to engage in futures trading with assets from still-living elderly donors' bequests then has its final event undermined by three Swedish advocates of De Waalianism - who fail to notice that de Waal is a judge? Hilarious. Rest well, @InepdMercedes. Thanks for all the laughs.