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...Traveling to many of the world's trouble spots, the artist has documented the atrocities of Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda in a hyper-real mix of painting, drawing and diary-making. A typical Gittoes canvas, with its Goya-like grotesqueries, can make Picasso's Guernica look like a picnic. But on arriving in Iraq in 2003, the artist felt a new medium was required to capture the surreality of what he was experiencing. Meeting Baghdad's gangsta rap?spouting U.S. Marines, Gittoes was inspired to shoot the musical documentary Soundtrack to War (2004), in which mainly black soldiers sing straight...
SOMALILAND, the most stable part of the Horn of Africa, declared independence from war-racked Somalia in 1991. After 15 years of relatively good government, it's getting some international recognition. Ethiopia just opened an embassy there...
African money is among the dirtiest in the world - literally. Many African central banks simply don't replace notes until they fall apart. In countries torn by war, like the Democratic Republic of Congo or Sierra Leone, years can pass before new notes are printed. In Somalia a few years back, bank notes became so scarce that warlords started printing their own money, causing inflation, predictably, to skyrocket...
...sure you’ve got good intelligence, which clearly didn’t happen in Iraq, and making sure you’ve got a well-thought-through plan. One of the lessons that has to come out of Iraq and that goes back to other interventions in Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, even back to Haiti, is that simply having the military power to take out the command and control of the enemy is really only step one. What do you really do in terms of getting the power back on, getting the water back on, reestablishing civil authority...
...million Number of people in urgent need of food and water aid in Somalia, which has been afflicted by a severe drought since last year