Matthew Russell Lee
Matthew Russell Lee is an accredited correspondent at the United Nations, where the New York Times has called him, with some hyperbole, the only blogger. He has, however, appeared three times on BloggingHeads.tv. He founded Inner City Press and, as a lawyer, brought a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and the Governor of Delaware, overturning a law which limited access to records to citizens of the state. He has written a satirical novel about the world of consumer finance, called "Predatory Bender", and is at work on a sequel about... the United Nations.
Who'll pay to keep Uganda's rebels sweet?
By Matthew Russell Lee
When indicted war criminals want to travel, who do they call? The United Nations, it seems.
Last week, the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs convened a meeting of donors, seeking to raise $7.7 million to re-energise peace talks between the Ugandan government and leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), who have been indicted by the U.N.-affiliated International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes committed during a brutal, two-decade insurgency in northern Uganda.
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By Matthew Russell Lee
When indicted war criminals want to travel, who do they call? The United Nations, it seems.
Last week, the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs convened a meeting of donors, seeking to raise $7.7 million to re-energise peace talks between the Ugandan government and leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), who have been indicted by the U.N.-affiliated International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes committed during a brutal, two-decade insurgency in northern Uganda.
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Somalia show must go on, despite explosions
By Matthew Russell Lee
"Even if a nuclear bomb explodes in Mogadishu, the conference will happen as scheduled," the president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, has been quoted saying. He's talking about the National Reconciliation Congress slated to begin on July 15, after being postponed twice.
One man's hubris is another's strong leadership.
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By Matthew Russell Lee
"Even if a nuclear bomb explodes in Mogadishu, the conference will happen as scheduled," the president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, has been quoted saying. He's talking about the National Reconciliation Congress slated to begin on July 15, after being postponed twice.
One man's hubris is another's strong leadership.
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