Middle East: March 2010 Archives
Thursday March 18, 2010
March 18 & 21: from Bhutan - Iraq - Ethiopia - Toronto
Climate change. Believe in it or not, treacherous weather systems are causing perilous effects in much of the world.
Right now, Ethiopian farmers battle a drought that threatens the new high-yield wheat crop, by reaching into the past for ancient seeds that can stand it.
And Bhutan fights flooding, one rock at a time, in the place where our reporter says rocky peaks sit like old men...with glaciers wrinkling down their faces.
And, the word from Limbo World, where non-countries do almost anything to become real ones. Even tending to a reporter's wounds.
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Thursday March 11, 2010
March 11 & 14: from Nairobi - Gikongoro, Rwanda - Kabul - London
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| One of the Crisis Commons volunteers using Ushahidi on February 27, 2010.(Ann McDonald/toronto365.ca) |
Landmines, kings and castles. Just some of the surprises in store for the Afghans born in the west-and gone searching for their roots.
From Rwanda, scarred bones tell the story of the dead, as a new generation of survivors grapples with the legacy of genocide.
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- analysis Neil Macdonald: Washington's obsession with leakers
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- Google is asking the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to lift its long-standing gag order on how often the company is asked to turn over data about its customers to the U.S. government.
- Brazil protesters keep up pressure on government
- Thousands of demonstrators flooded into a square in Brazil's economic hub, Sao Paulo, on Tuesday for the latest in a historic wave of protests against the shoddy state of public transit, schools and other public services in this booming South American giant.