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Micah in Lemming Cliff

Mar 17, 2017

Arteries of Destruction

After increasing reports of large influxes of refugees entering Uganda from the Yei and Kajo-Keji regions of South…

Scott Edwards in Lemming Cliff

Jan 18, 2017

First View of a “Mistake” from Space: The Bombing of a Displacement camp in Nigeria

We are releasing here imagery from Amnesty International taken today over Rann in Borno State, Nigeria, the site of yesterday’s bombing of a displacement camp by the Nigerian Air Force…

Micah in Lemming Cliff

Nov 18, 2016

Juba — Interrupted

On 8 July 2016, the fragile new peace deal forming the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) shattered to pieces in the capital of the youngest country in the world — Juba, South Sudan. Over four days, forces loyal President Salva Kiir and then-Vice President Riek Machar battled…

Micah in Lemming Cliff

Oct 26, 2016

Mosul —the making of a humanitarian disaster

Satellite imagery of the Mosul area over the last few months looks like what you…

Micah in Lemming Cliff

Oct 5, 2016

In Plain Sight: The World’s Refugee Crisis As Seen From Space

Micah in Lemming Cliff

Sep 28, 2016

Access to the Inaccessible — Documenting Darfur Human Rights Violations from Space

Scott Edwards in Lemming Cliff

Sep 15, 2016

Inaugural Leap

As I begin this post — the inaugural of the Lemming Cliff — I will acknowledge in a nod to students of the Rodentia Order that Lemmings do not commit mass suicide. Like many trope origins, well-intentioned people at some point attempting to describe and understand the natural world around them erred —…