Outside Magazine
They fly into lands of hunger and madness, dispensing food while warlords dispense terror from the barrel of a gun. They trade safety and comfort for the sharp edge of altruism, predictable careers for the daily bread of death and disease. They’re relief workers ...
Category: Africa
Court Martial
The New Republic
An Islamic militia gains ground in Somalia.
March 13, 2000
Over the past decade Somalia has earned a reputation as the world capital of senseless violence. It scores almost as high in the poverty department. The coastal city of Merca, then, is that strangest of phenomena–a ...
James Nachtwey’s Inferno
George
For more than a decade, photographer James Nachtwey has chronicled the war zones of the world–Rwanda, Bosnia and Chechnya among them. Now, a new book, Inferno, brings us his vision of hell on earth.
December 1999
When you drove into wartime Sarajevo along Sniper Alley, ...
Rwanda, the Sorrow and the Pity
The Washington Post
Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey. By Fergal Keane
August 25, 1996
By Fergal Keane
Viking. 198 pp. $21.95
Reviewed by Peter Maass
HOW DO you explain what war is like? How do you explain the mad violence of drunken soldiers or the spiritual ruins that survivors have been turned into? ...