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The title of a column by Paul Delfgaauw on 15 December in Trouw (one of the main a Dutch newspapers). Its title caught my immediate attention and I’m citing (& translating) some of it below.
Jan Gruiters, Director of IKV Pax Christi (Dutch Peace Movement – website also in English), [...]
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Yesterday was World AIDS Day. This year’s theme was: ‘Lead – Empower – Deliver‘. The umbrella theme for 2007-08, Leadership, provides an opportunity to highlight both the political leadership needed to fulfill commitments that have been made in the response to AIDS – particularly the promise of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and [...]
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Last Thursday I ‘travelled’ back to Mali, listening to amazing ngoni (traditional West African lute – the origin of the American banjo) music by Bassekou Kouyate & Amy Sacko, eating lovely Malian food, and discovering a member of the Coulibaly family (= my Malian family, it was the surname I choose while living there in [...]
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