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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 […]
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 […]
The program has been on air. It was even better the second time.
The Swedish newspaper Expressen contacted me this morning and their article is now available on the web.
Now I have to be off and get some sleep, because I have to be at the studio tomorrow morning at half past six for the Morning […]
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 […]
I am leaving for Oslo today.
Earlier the Norwegian television company TV2 sent a television crew that came to visit us in Niger. They were doing a documentary about Niger’s hyped famine of 2005 and stayed with us for two amazing weeks. The project is now done and will air on March 3rd, at 10.30 pm. […]
There used to be a time when Niger was unknown to the outside world and people hardly knew what continent I was talking about. As a teenager, I quickly learned to present my country as “Niger-south-of-Algeria-north-of-Nigeria” just to make people understand that there was in fact something else than a void in the midst of […]
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