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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 […]
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 […]
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