- It's awards season in aid blog-land! Be sure to vote for the ABBA's (Aid Blogger's Best Awards) and the Best in SWEDOW!
- The Resource Curse doesn't really exist.
- Collette Braeckman interviews Joseph Kabila. Jason Stearns provides a summary of the highlights here.
- Anti-terrorism training in the DRC. Next lesson might need to be about not telling all your friends about what you learned in anti-terrorism training such that it then ends up on the internet.
- Everybody but Laurent Gbagbo realizes that Laurent Gbagbo has to go. Derek Catsam ponders the possibilities.
- Everybody except the Russians, that is. Shelby Grossman explains why.
- "They Call us ATM Machines" - Mary Harper on Somalis in Kenya.
- Oh, Invisible Children. How do you manage to consistently get it so, so wrong?
- Results-based aid: who said it?
- James Baldwin and William F. Buckley debate.
- The Amazing Race does an okay job of not perpetuating stereotypes about poor people. Kindof.
- The United States of auto-complete.
- In case you missed it, this is a great primer on India's microcredit collapse.
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