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Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. His books include Mass Starvation, The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa, and Famine Crimes.
The famine in Yemen is not simply “man-made.” Particular men are responsible, and they should be brought to justice.
Two new British reports deliver a damning and decisive verdict on the politics of interventionism.
The vote will have consequences far beyond the UK's borders.
The West likes morality plays with clear heroes and villains, in which we play the role of savior.
At USAID there’s one simple thing you can commit to: no famine.
Epidemics are not security crises. But the army is often our only tool.
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