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Category: Africa

Another Day in the Drop Zone

Outside Magazine
July 2000

BAIDOA, SOMALIA

“Salat! Salat!”

The call to prayer came at 4:30 a.m.

“Pray! Pray! It’s better to pray than to sleep!”

I was staying in a house across the street from one of Baidoa’s mosques, so there was no chance of dozing. As the echoes ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on July 2, 2000January 31, 2021Categories Africa, Article, Outside

Court Martial: An Islamic Militia Gains Ground in Somalia

The New Republic
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 Somali boomtown. Merca’s marketplace is loaded ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on March 14, 2000January 31, 2021Categories Africa, Article, New Republic

James Nachtwey’s Inferno

George Magazine
December 1999

When you drove into wartime Sarajevo along Sniper Alley, you passed a wall that bore the slogan “Welcome to Hell.” This dark greeting would be appropriate for each of the bloodied nations that photojournalist James Nachtwey visited in the last decade of the ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on December 2, 1999January 31, 2021Categories Africa, Article, Balkans, Book Reviews

Rwanda, the Sorrow and the Pity

The Washington Post
August 25, 1996
(The following is a review of “Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey” by Fergal Keane)

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? And how do you ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on August 26, 1996January 31, 2021Categories Africa, Article, Book Reviews, Washington Post

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