Are they helping others or helping themselves ?

"Every now and then we go through this awakening process that really makes us feel used and manipulated," a colleague told me the other day. Some time ago the Norwegian documentary film "The Famine Scam" was awarded first prize for its outstanding journalistic work on the "famine" in Niger. Let us go back to July...

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Interview with Pat Banks, Co-ordinator and founder of the Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN)

The Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) celebrated its tenth year of operation last year. A part of the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Human Activities (OCHA), yet independent, IRIN was established in 1995 to provide accurate and timely information about the Great Lakes crisis so that the humanitarian community would be better informed...

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