The Miss Landmine Competition 2008, a pageant in pictures

Kamene Traca/Miss Landmine 2008
From foxnews.com - LUANDA, ANGOLA ~ Beautiful, courageous women, in a land filled with violence, holding their own and showing the world what they can do on a positive tip.
In a pageant that raises mine awareness, the world’s first Miss Landmine is crowned in Luanda, Angola. The contest was open to [...]

The Faces of War in Sudan - Mar 08 pictures

Women and children sat near tents marking the spots where homes once stood in Sirba, another village that was attacked / Photo: Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
More violence and terror tactics continue in the Darfur region of Sudan. Some think it’s starting to escalate, from nytimes.com - from an article by LYDIA [...]

Kenya Election Sparks Violence.. in pictures

Photo: Noor Khamis - Reuters
In the news - from the washingtonpost.com and msnbc.msn.com - “Police battle thousands of opposition supporters across Kenya who accuse President Mwai Kibaki of vote rigging to win his re-election.”
“NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya’s attorney general called for an independent body to verify the results of last week’s disputed election, as riot [...]

Rape of a Nation ~ The Democratic Republic of Congo (audio slideshow)

All photos: Marcus Bleasdale / VII
Welcome to my Tuesday and my 200th post. I hope you take a few minutes and check out this slideshow. It is a very informative, full multimedia presentation, from mediastorm.org by Marcus Bleasdale. It contains links to how you can help and much more. I know it can be depressing, [...]

New Violence in Kenya - Unrest.. pictures

Photo: Ben Curtis / AP
UPDATED ~ Jan 18th
In the news, protest in Kenya added more violence today, from msnbc.msn.com -
“NAIROBI, Kenya - Opposition protests resumed in Kenya on Wednesday, and as many people here feared, violence erupted across the country once again. The worst clashes were in Kisumu, Kenya’s third largest city and an opposition [...]

In the Shadow of Kenya’s Violence.. in pictures

Violence and mayhem knows no day off, week-ends does not matter. From nytimes.com -
“KISUMU, Kenya — Oginga Odinga Street, the main thoroughfare in town, is a testament to rage. Dozens of stores have been looted, torched and smashed by rioters and then picked clean by an army of glue-sniffing street children searching for whatever was [...]

The Darfur Tragedy.. Sudan in Crisis.. Interactive, pictures

AFP/Getty
Monday’s Special Feature: Darfur, which means land of the Fur. Most of us have heard about the genocide horror stories coming out of Darfur. I did a post earlier on “Darfur victims.. Angelina Jolie visit.. in pictures”, you may want to check it out if you haven’t already. According to a BBC.CO.UK news article, [...]

A photographers journal.. “The Faces of Africa”

A Sunday Special Feature: In this photographers journal, Jehad Nga shot a series of portraits in Somalia and Kenya from 2006-2007. He was sent to cover the drought in the Horn of Africa for Human Rights Watch. Sometimes a photographer just happens to be at the right place at the right time, that and being [...]

Darfur victims.. Angelina Jolie visit.. in pictures

Angelina Jolie, beautiful and intelligent. The slideshow “A Voice for the Victims” from msnbc.msn.com is really nice, photos per-Anders Pettersson / Getty Images. From the slideshow: “Angelina Jolie traveled alone on a commercial flight to the Chadian capital of N’Djamena. From there she flew with humanitarian workers to Oure Cassoni, a bleak camp housing some [...]