


Russia is now the biggest arms exporter to Africa, but what’s going on in Algeria?
Can a systems change approach improve disaster management? Really interesting case study from Indonesia
Just when you thought it couldnāt get any worse: ā Taliban bans contraception calling use a āwestern conspiracyā
The rise and fall of innovation labs in the aid sector.
āGerman ballet director who smeared critic with faeces sackedā. Itās the juxtaposition of āballetā and āfaecesāā¦..
Quotes by famous people if they had worked in nonprofit ht Ingrid Srinath. My favourite: āTo every action there is an equal and opposite reporting requirement.āĀ ā Sir Isaac Newton
So farewell then, Nicola Sturgeon, with Janey Godley voiceover
Appearances are often deceptive with the Taliban. Idealogy is frequently used to hide a naked struggle for power. The noise produced as a result in Western Capitals is well orchestrated and there are many winners in the process. There is a lot of pragmatism behind the apparent naivette. In the nineties a vehicle with a tape recoder would be greeted with scorn and evoke aggrressive negative reactiins. Today young talibs sit at checking posts punching their mobiles lost in facebook. Let see how it unfolds.