Chris Albin-Lackey
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Chris Albin-Lackey is a senior researcher in the Business and Human Rights Program. He carries out research and advocacy work on human rights issues related to extractive industries as well as the human rights impact of corruption in resource-rich countries. From 2008 until 2010, Albin-Lackey was a senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Africa Division specializing on the Horn of Africa and Kenya. Prior to that, he was the Nigeria researcher at Human Rights Watch, focusing on issues including local government corruption in the oil-producing Niger Delta; abuses connected to Nigeria's 2007 elections; and government discrimination against "non-indigene" populations across Nigeria. He also worked as a fellow for Human Rights Watch, covering Ethiopia in the run-up to that country's controversial 2005 elections. Albin-Lackey lived in Ethiopia and Madagascar as a Peace Corps volunteer before joining the organization. Albin-Lackey has a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from Boston University and a JD from Columbia Law School. He speaks French.

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From the Horn of Africa, a Ray of Hope

Posted July 21, 2010 | 15:34:49 (EST)

Ask people what they know about Somalia and most will probably start talking about pirates, terrorists, and Black Hawk Down. Not many would think to mention democracy or free elections as well, but they should. Last month, Somaliland -- an impoverished sliver of territory that has maintained de facto independence...

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The US Role in Somalia's Calamity

Posted December 29, 2008 | 11:00:10 (EST)

Pirates have put Somalia back on the international agenda, but Somalia's people have yet to receive as much protection as the international tankers off-shore. The brutal, widely ignored conflict in Somalia has crept back into the headlines only after spawning a massive humanitarian crisis and Islamist extremism, as well as...

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