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(Photo: Médecin sans Frontiers, Spain. © Juan Carlos Tomasi)
The US will play a major role in rebuilding Haiti. But reconciling long-term statebuilding objectives with waves of Haitian emigrants will prove a difficult balancing act , writes Tone Faret . While long-term reconstruction is crucial, it must be on Haiti’s own terms , fine-tuned to the Haitian reality, insists Henriette Lunde .
Intensifying conflict is threatening the stability of Southern Sudan and ultimately the peace process itself. Local violence must be thwarted, perpetrators brought to justice and land legislation clarified writes Øystein H. Rolandsen , so that the elections and the secession referendum are not derailed.
