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...serves to provoke its audience—no matter how restrictive that audience may be. Following the screening of “This Is Nollywood,” Corrigan described the subsequent success of “Check Point” and its curious reception in northern Nigeria, where the “Calawood” film collective produces more conservative films for the predominately Muslim community there: “The Censor Board’s blurb on the cover of ‘Check Point’ reads: ‘The best movie we?...
...still part of Serbia) by recognizing Kosovo's unilateral independence declaration, calling that, rather than the events at the embassy, "the deepest violation of international law". And U.N. troops used teargas to disperse some 5,000 Serb demonstrators trying to cross into the Albanian side of the divided northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica...
...allowing us to go to Baghdad." MSF was operational in Iraq in 2003 from April to Nov 2004 when it closed its projects and withdrew their staff. "It became increasingly dangerous to be even associated with a humanitarian organization," he says. Today MSF has an office in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq, where it is considerably safer but also far removed from the treacherous areas to its south...
...mission director. "That's one of the key issues that we as a donor face - not having that overall comfort knowing how effective the resources are." On a recent trip Crowley made with colleagues from the U.N., he went to an area of Adhamiyah, a predominantly Sunni neighborhood in northern Baghdad, full of internally displaced people, or IDPs in humanitarian lingo. For some of his colleagues who had been in the country a year it was one of their very first such visits. Through the thick glass he could see the different living arrangements of the IDPs, some living...
...That seems unlikely in the run-down mining town that didn't even exist until some German miners set up a company called SAM near the town of Ouandja. The mining company's departure and decades of neglect and insecurity have left the remote northern town a forgotten backwater - like the country of which it forms part...