The Harmattan and Angelina Jolie Diary Post
Ouch! Angelina was mentioned in Pelda’s diary who is on a three week journey traveling the Darfur Region and more.
During his three weeks traveling in the region, Pelda kept a diary. By virtue of the author’s firsthand observations and his numerous conversations with local Sudanese and Chadians, foreign aid workers and Darfur rebels, Pelda’s diary provides a portrait of the Darfur conflict that is perhaps unrivaled in its detail and nuance. Over the next few weeks, publishing one diary entry each weekday, World Politics Review will present this important document for the first time in English, with an epilogue penned by Pelda exclusively for WPR.
Angie was mentioned in Day Two.
In the meanwhile, I have inquired about flights to the East. The U.N. has two small planes with which it transports personnel between N’Djamena and Abéché, as well as between Abéché and certain localities in the border region with Darfur. Unfortunately, I cannot get a seat, since the next flight is already completely booked. Among others, it will be carrying Angelina Jolie plus her full entourage. Jolie is acting as a “Goodwill Ambassador” for the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) and she wants to have a look around the camps in the East. Less generous souls in N’Djamena say that Jolie is only doing the trip because Mia Farrow was recently in Chad as “Goodwill Ambassador” for UNICEF. Just what a “Goodwill Ambassador” is — and what purpose the whole media circus around them is supposed to serve — is not entirely clear to me. Is it only possible to draw the attention of the global public to a tragedy, to mass murder such as is occurring in Darfur, when Hollywood stars are flown in for quick visits to refugee camps and then shed tears at a press conference afterwards? I have trouble believing it. But when I ask a high-ranking U.N. official, he merely replies, “That’s the way the world is. You have to be realistic.”
You can read the full diary here
July 14th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Why would you post this uncomplimentary story on an Angelina Jolie fan site?
July 14th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Because I post all news on Angelina Jolie, this is Angelina Jolie Watch. Not..only read what you want to read site. Im sorry, I love her to death but this is a true story someone mentioned her in. My belief is I would rather you hear it first on my site than anywhere else. I want people to count on reading all her latest news about her real life not just fairy tale goodness.
July 14th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
The problem with this story is that Angelina in her Newsweek interview about the Chad visit claimed to have gone totally alone. Either she lied or this journalist did.
July 14th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
ITS FRUSTRATION FROM PELDA’S PART, ANGELINA GOES ANYWHERE AND ITS NEWS, EVEN FOR GOSSIP SHOWS.
ANYWAY, LOVE ANGIE.