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Cash handouts: When aid runs short of ideas
Cash handouts – the solution for West Africa or another way of keeping the aid circus running? IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks), which is part of the UN but supposedly editorially...
View ArticleThe Controversies of the Aid Industry
I just read a BBC article where a large aid organization (in this case, Care International) still refers to the Niger Famine Scam as valid information. In my heart, I will never be able to understand...
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Mirriah & the Niger Famine Scam
As most of you already know by now, Mirriah is one of my favourite places in Niger. It is an old village with an ancient heritage, rich in century old Baobab trees and known for its vegetable gardens....
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The Hallands Nyheter article about The Famine Scam
During the heat of the crisis, the local Swedish newspaper Hallands Nyheter interviewed me about The Famine Scam and wrote an article about it, which was recently added to the web. Published on March...
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Der Spiegel: “The Desert Garden of Eden”
The first news agency to write about the Niger Famine Scam (in December 2005) was Der Spiegel. Their article was recently published on the Internet, and what follows is a rough translation. Should you...
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Sam Ruteikara on Aid Politics in Uganda: “Let My People Go”
I recently stumbled upon a chronicle entitled Let My People Go, AIDS Profiteers, written by Sam L. Ruteikara, co-chair of Uganda’s National AIDS-Prevention Committee. It’s an interesting read because...
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Tanout & the US 2008 Elections: Change Takes Generations
The world is still in awe of the historical elections that took place on November 4th 2008, when the first coloured man ever was elected president of the United States of America. According to the...
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Swedish Television criticizes BBC Niger 2005 report
The Famine Scam (2008) – as the outside world remembers Niger in 2005 A documentary broadcast on Swedish public television on Tuesday called into question the reputation of Britain’s public...
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The Famine Scam on YouTube!
If you happened to miss the Niger famine drama that took place in 2004-05 on International Television, you can now watch the documentary about it, entitled The Famine Scam, on YouTube. The Famine Scam...
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The Famine Scam Receives Top Norwegian Journalism Award!
“That is not the reality that I have seen,” Esther Garvi (The Famine Scam) The Norwegian documentary The Famine Scam recently received the top Norwegian journalism award for its “extensive research”...
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The Image of Africa
I keep thinking of the image we see of Africa. Of the poverty, the misery and the constant hand that reaches for the charitable gift it is about to receive. And I wonder why there is no balance. For...
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Food for Work versus Working for Your Own Food
Copyright Eden Foundation (2009) While heading up to the field station recently, the Eden research team drove past a number of people working by the roadside. Copyright Eden Foundation (2009) They...
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Inventing Famines
William Easterly, professor of Economics at the New York university, recently posted a piece entitled “Famine Cover-Ups vs. Fake Famines”. The Famine Scam that took place in Niger in 2005 is one of...
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Famine in Niger?
Ever since the beginning of July when the bush turned green, …Nature’s Pantry in the Zinder area has been providing food for free for anyone who would like to harvest. There’s no place I can ride to,...
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Proof of a famine?
While we say a picture says more than a thousand words, we often forget to tell the story behind it…
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