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Yesterday’s post about the Niger 2004-05 Famine Scam debate going in Norway has been updated with the following link:
Norwegian People’s Aid goes self-critical, published in Bergens Tidende on May 3rd, 2008
It is an interview with Petter Eide, the secretary general of the Norwegian People’s Aid whom after the Tabloid debate that followed the day after […]
There’s a fresh debate going on in Norway right, touching right into the heart of aid politics. It all started with a chronicle I wrote that was published in Bergens Tidende on April 28th, entitled Be om unnskyldning, Egeland.
Here are a few quotes from the chronicle that translates to ‘Egeland, you owe an apology‘:
…for despite […]
The Norwegian documentary Sultbløffen is on the move. It will air on the Swedish channel TV4 on Sunday 7.20 pm. Here is a rough translation of what they write:
Norwegian TV2: ”The famine in Niger exaggerated”
Sommaren 2005
During the summer of 2005, a tragic drama unfolds on our TV screens. A documentary produced by Norwegian TV2, shows […]
Interviewing the nomads of Tanout in 2007 about the 2004-05 crisis
and meeting their gorgeous cows
A few days ago, Swedish anthropologist Björn Dönell responded to my post Why is there so much politics behind aid? His comment concerns the nomads, and roughly translates to:
I was dealing with Niger in 2005. Have 20 years of experience in […]
One of the people I met in the TV2 Tabloid debate last Tuesday (5th of March) was Petter Eide, Secretary General of the Norwegian People’s Aid.
I had seen him earlier that morning, when he publicly vouched for the professionalism and the good intentions of the large aid organizations.
I was sitting a few rooms away as […]
There is a time for everything, and tonight was my time to go out on television and speak up for the poor.
There is a whole debate going on about the aid organizations’ handling of “emergencies”, and the thing is, we can never forget that we are dealing with real human beings here. They may be […]
I slept one hour last night, but I’m doing well. Had to be up at half past five, in order to appear live at quarter past seven this morning on God morgen Norge. It was a nice brief chat with Signe Tynning and Nils Gunnar Lie and I am left wondering what Norway is thinking.
The […]
Norwegien Dagbladet came out with an article about the documentary that will air this evening. This roughly translates to:
Egeland accused of bluffing about starvation
By Cathrien Slaaen
In the documentary ”Sultbløffen”, former UN aid coordinator Jan Egeland, together with the BBC, are accused of informing the world about a famine in Niger that didn’t exist.
During the summer […]
On their website, TV2 Norway writes:
Ble påkjørt av en bil
Bildet av ei død ku ble brukt i medienes omtale av sultkatastrofen i Niger i 2005. -Kua ble påkjørt av en bil, sier Johanne Sekkenes i Leger uten grenser.
Johanne Sekkenes jobber i den medisinske nødhjelpsorganisasjonen Leger uten grenser. Hun var en av de sentrale personene som […]
Today, TV2 Norway posted the following presentation about the “famine” of Niger, which will be airing on Monday the 3rd of March at 22.35pm:
En medieskapt katastrofe
Året er 2005. En fem måneder gammel gutt dør rett foran et TV-kamera, og BBC erklærer sultkatastrofe i Niger. Men tv-bildene forteller ikke sannheten.
FAKTA:
Se Dokument 2 på TV […]
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