Tag: Darfur

March 22 was World Water Day and if you are still not aware about what this day is about (even though it’s clearly self explanatory), then you should know that water affects every aspect of our lives, yet nearly one billion people around the world don’t have clean drinking water, and 2.6 billion still lack basic sanitation. World Water Day, celebrated annually on March 22, was established by the United Nations in 1992 and focuses attention on ...

  Many events will take place on January 9th to support Sudan365: A Beat For Peace. If you don’t know what this special day is about, here is more information coming from the Save Darfur Website:   A global day of action on Sudan will take place on January 9th, 2010, marking the fifth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between North and South Sudan and one year out from the referendum that will determine whether the Southern ...

  First Twitter Sunday of 2010 and we want to begin with our Favorites Tweets from a respected journalist: Nicholas Kristof . According to his bio on Twitter, he’s a New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. But he’s also a great journalist that uses interactive tools and social media  (Twitter, Facebook) to build a community and engage the audience.   We at the Sama Team, had no idea who was Nicholas Kristof ...

Yesterday, Max Dana posted on her blog a long article titled: Darfur, Congo, Burma: is ‘good will’ enough? All the Sama Team felt very concerned by the subject, we discussed a lot about it since yesturday so we decided to post this entire article on the Sama Gazette. If you are a regular reader of the Gazette, you know we usually don’t post anything directly connected to Max Dana (it’s an internal policy, we stay independent ...