By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (Iraqi reporter/photographer/writer, once a "character" in Salam Pax's blog,) London Review of Books, November 3, 2011 issue.

sample excerpt:

....He tried to insert the tube for a drip into a child’s skull. I asked him: why not his hand? He looked at me, lifted the child’s tiny hand and said: ‘Find me a vein here and you can have my lunch today.’ He told me he’d been at home in Khartoum watching al-Jazeera when he saw what was happening in Somalia. ‘I knew I had to come. I had seen this before, in Darfur. But this is mad. People are leaving their polluted faeces on the ground and then drinking water from the well next to it. It’s mad. With a water purification unit I could cut cases of diarrhoea in half.’

Later he whispered: ‘I have to talk to you. I have to talk or I’ll explode.’

The next day I went to see him at his residence. He was flanked by two PRs from his NGO. Eventually they got bored and left us alone together.....