Protect the Oil Zone

John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri Mar 16, 2011 Dig deeper

Nigerian Governor Says Army Ignored Massacre Warnings

Staff / Truthdig Mar 10, 2010 On Sunday, hundreds of people were killed in three Nigerian villages near the city of Jos in a retaliatory massacre that might have been thwarted, according to a local governor, had the military paid attention to warning signs before it began and distress signals once it was under way. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Clooney in Chad

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2009 The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof recently took at trip to Chad with an unlikely sidekick: George Clooney. Kristof was skeptical at first, but Clooney -- always the charmer! -- won him over, and thus Kristof came to see the potential benefits of celebrity advocacy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Exposing the GOP’s Voter Suppression Campaign

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Jun 5, 2008 If Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, is to defeat John McCain, he'd better get started organizing teams of election law attorneys and other specialists to guard against efforts already underway to disenfranchise Democratic voters. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

How Not to Help Africans

Gbemisola Olujobi / Truthdig Nov 27, 2007 The French charity group L'Arche de Zoé (Zoë's Ark) took 103 Chadian children from their homes with promises of sweets and a trip to the city of Abeche. But the group actually planned to fly the children to France on a 220-seater plane from Abeche airport in Eastern Chad, passing them off as "Sudanese orphans from Darfur" who needed urgent medical care and foster homes. The fiasco sheds new light on the activities of Western "angels of mercy" in Africa. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Can Drag Queens and Hired Guns Save Darfur?

Sarah Stillman / Truthdig Jun 28, 2007 Truthdig foreign correspondent Sarah Stillman went on assignment in Africa to investigate the Darfur crisis and the beleaguered African Union troops who struggle -- without the necessary funds or mandate -- to keep a lid on genocide. Her exploration of efforts to resolve the conflict reveals a global community tragically dependent on celebrities and mercenaries. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )