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"We are telling the world that with the indictment of our President al-Bashir we can't be responsible for the well-being of foreign forces in Darfur."

A Sudanese presidential adviser, Bona Malwal, months ahead of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) issuance March 4 of an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir.

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Myanmar Dispatches: An Aid Worker Remembers

Nobuyuki Aoki spent almost two years in Myanmar overseeing aid projects for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, an international non-governmental organization. He has not been back since Myanmar's military junta suppressed Buddhist political protests in September 2007, and says he misses this troubled Southeast Asian land.

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7 Myths About Working for the US State Department

Life as a diplomat is a lot more than cocktail parties and paper pushing, according to recruiters.

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An Italian Development NGO Navigates Europe

Working independently in international development is not an easy task. Cesvi, an Italian NGO, runs cooperation projects across the globe using a network of public and private funders, tight coordination with its foreign counterparts and a strict transparency policy.

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THIS WEEK, we note than yet another African country is in the process of adopting male circumcision as a part of its national HIV prevention strategy. But experts worry that men are signing up ahead of the launch of a planned public awareness campaign in Angola due to an erroneous belief in the benefits of the procedure and may be more prone to forgo another form of protection against HIV as a result.

What benefit has been wrongly connected to the circumcision?

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