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Links I Liked

February 20, 2023

     By Duncan Green     

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 couldn’t get any worse: ’ Taliban bans contraception calling use a ā€˜western conspiracy’

The rise and fall of innovation labs in the aid sector.

ā€˜German ballet director who smeared critic with faeces sacked’. It’s the juxtaposition of ā€˜ballet’ and ā€˜faeces’…..

Quotes by famous people if they had worked in nonprofit ht Ingrid Srinath. My favourite: ā€œTo every action there is an equal and opposite reporting requirement.ā€Ā ā€“ Sir Isaac Newton

So farewell then, Nicola Sturgeon, with Janey Godley voiceover

February 20, 2023
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Comments

  1. 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.

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