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My first debate

Posted in March 5th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in aid politics, in the media, personal

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 […]

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After ‘Good morning Norway’

Posted in March 4th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in aid politics, cultural differences

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 […]

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The media has awakened

Posted in March 3rd, 2008
by Esther Garvi in aid politics, in the media

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 […]

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When a runover cow becomes an icon for a famine

Posted in March 3rd, 2008
by Esther Garvi in aid politics, in the media

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 […]

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Calling it ‘a media created catastrophe’

Posted in February 29th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in aid politics, in the media

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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Oslo

Posted in February 28th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in in the media

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. […]

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Niger in the news - a sterotypical portrait

Posted in June 9th, 2007
by Esther Garvi in Favourite posts, in the media, things you want to know about Niger, things you'd never do in Sweden, values

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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