The World's Most Dangerous Landing Strips

by Michael Bear · 2009-08-24 20:46:00 UTC
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What could be better than a Monday links post - including, of course, the worst landing strips in the world:

- Alanna Shaikh - of Blood and Milk and Global Health fame, and one of my favorite humanitarian bloggers - has a great post on learning to be an expat.   She also helpfully explains some of the problems with the way NGOs handle monitoring and evaluation.

- BBC has a fascinating series of portraits from Darfur.

- Texas in Africa explains why the follow-up to Hillary Clinton's recent visit to eastern Congo has been underwhelming, to say the least.

- An IRIN article looks at the collapse of humanitarian space in Afghanistan, and the corresponding risk to humantiarian workers.  According to one Taliban spokesman:

"The UN and aid organizations are not impartial.  If they are truly impartial why do they use armoured cars, armed guards and hide behind barricaded walls.They receive funding from the US and Britain; support the puppet government in Kabul; and damage our Islamic and Afghani values."

- An article from the UN News Service describes how aid workers struggle to keep funds flowing after donor support ebbs.

- Aid Watch offers five simple principles for scaling up in aid.

- And, finally, the Road to the Horizon looks at the world's ten most dangerous landing strips.

[Photo of airport in Goma, DRC from www.crs.state.gov]

Michael Bear
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