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I remember sitting in a humid, corrugated metal office outside Goma, staring at a spreadsheet that claimed we had successfully disbursed six months of malaria …

I spent most of my nine years in East Africa staring at spreadsheets that looked perfect on paper, only to watch the actual supplies rot …

I spent nine years in South Sudan and the DRC watching people pour millions into “digital transformation” while the actual supplies sat rotting in a …

I spent nine years watching trucks sit idle in the mud outside Goma because a single signature was missing from a customs clearance form. People …

Most people treat a data dump like a sacred religious relic, wasting weeks trying to decode the “intent” or the moral weight behind every single …

I spent most of my thirties in humid, overcrowded courtrooms in South Sudan, waiting for signatures that rarely came. Most people think learning how to …

I spent nine years watching NGOs lose their minds over compliance spreadsheets while the actual supplies sat rotting in a customs warehouse because nobody knew …

Stop looking at the pundits in London or DC debating the “geopolitical implications” of the upcoming vote. If you want to understand how to cover …

I’ve spent enough years sitting in dusty transit hubs in South Sudan to know that most journalists get it wrong. They flock to the capital, …