this & that

• Mia Farrow gives a compliment. Sortof.
• Here's an excellent post on the negative economic effects of Zanzibar's ongoing electricity crisis.
• SMS-ing & the Jos riots were connected.
• Alex de Waal says it: "Sudan's election is for real." Here's a big part of the reason why.
  
• The rescue of the British couple who were captured by Somali pirates when sailing their yacht to the Seychelles didn't go as planned. It's not good.
• A profile of Dr. Denis Mukwege of Panzi Hospital. Quote from the doctor: "Women in Africa already have the answers..."
  
• New mortality estimates for Darfur.
• Shashank Bengali's beautiful reflection on leaving Kenya.
• Grant's link list = awesome.
  
• Excellent points regarding The Lancet's scathing anti-aid agency editorial.
• This is why child protection in disaster zones is so important.
• Where your Haiti-bound tax dollars at work go.
• Teaching with Twitter. I'm experimenting with it this semester & am very interested in how/if it will work.
  
• Thoughts on freedom's fate in Africa in the last decade.
• "The Typical Incendiary Blog Post."
• The Onion discovers Haiti.
• This won't make starving grad students feel better about their lot in life, but it never gets old.
  
• Fox is the most trusted name in American news. And yet they don't report actual news...
  
• Here's what happens when pundits make a political scientist yell. (And John Sides is not the sort to yell.)
  
• Everything that can kill you, courtesy of the Daily Mail.