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AFGHANISTAN: Seeking a Common Future

Posted in Afghanistan, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Diplomacy, Foreign Aid, Government, Military, United States, tagged , , , , , , on April 15, 2011|

Afghan Online Press

By: M. Ashraf Haidari
April 14, 2011

When I first joined the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington , D.C. , in 2004, as director of government and media relations, the embassy lacked everything from a basic management structure to carry out its routine diplomatic activities to a website that could help facilitate customer service online. The concept of public diplomacy through direct dialogue with the American people — explaining to them our shared interests in securing the future of Afghanistan — was unknown. (more…)

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SRI LANKA: One year after the war, concerns remain in Sri Lanka

Posted in Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Fact Finding, Foreign Aid, Government, Health Care, History, Internal Displaced Persons, Military, NGOs, Property Damage, Refugee Camps, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Terrorists, United Nations, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 31, 2010|

31 May 2010 11:33:00 GMT

Written by: ECHO. By Malini Morzaria

I was last in Sri Lanka’s capital city, Colombo, almost a year after India’s Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had been assassinated by a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber. 1992 was still a fraught year in Sri Lanka’s civil war.

On-going hostilities between the government and the rebels in the north, thousands killed and displaced by the conflict, a naval commander killed by suicide bombers and senior army officials killed in a land mine explosion. (more…)

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SRI LANKA: Selvanayagam Selvantha, “Imagine being with traumatised people every single day”

Posted in Civilian Casualties, Health Care, Internal Displaced Persons, NGOs, Property Damage, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on April 27, 2010|

KALMUNAI, 27 April 2010 (IRIN) –  Selvanayagam Selvantha, 34, has worked as a pastor and social worker for eight years in rural northeast Sri Lanka, helping people to recover from the country’s civil war and the 2004 tsunami, which displaced more than a million people. He works with the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India, which provides free nursery and after-school activities for affected children, and spoke to IRIN about his experiences: (more…)

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GEORGIA: Medvedev Feted in South Ossetia

Posted in Actors, Central Asia, Country, Foreign Aid, Georgia, Government, Military, Other, Property Damage, Region, Type of Harm, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 14, 2009|

14 July 2009

By Nikolaus von Twickel / The Moscow Times

President Dmitry Medvedev pledged support for South Ossetia’s separatist leadership during a surprise visit Monday that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili condemned as Russia’s “most immoral and shameful precedent in centuries.” (more…)

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Georgia: On Visit to Breakaway Enclave, Russian President Promises Help in Rebuilding

Posted in Actors, Central Asia, Country, Georgia, Government, Region, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 14, 2009|

By ELLEN BARRY
Published: July 13, 2009

MOSCOW — The Russian president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, made a surprise visit to breakaway South Ossetia on Monday, inspecting a new Russian military base there and promising citizens that Russia would rebuild neighborhoods destroyed during last year’s brief war between Russia and Georgia. (more…)

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