Armadillo at Large

Having embarked on a training mission to Haiti Armadillo now finds itself involved in several weeks of interim support to our client as they seek a permanent replacement. Having regained contextual expertise we look forward to carrying this on with new clients.

Armadillo continues to work in post-conflict Libya by providing an interim security officer to one of our clients. We look forward to using the expertise gained to help more clients in the coming difficult months

Armadillo has worked regularly with a variety of INGO  clients in Gaza and the West Bank since 2009, most recently in late summer of 2012. We look forward to returning again soon.

We have several client partners in Pakistan, and an ongoing mentoring relationship as well as an in the field presence. Steve Ritchie has just completed a period in Pakistan to complement his remote mentoring and support work. This client partner relationship is the kind of work we value and want to increasingly develop – it [...]

Michelle Mackintosh recently led a training support contract in Khartoum, focussing on crisis response with an INGO client. Earlier in the year we provided two interim security officers in Darfur and our context knowledge remains strong.

After a year of supporting our environmental client in the field full time, we enter a break in that programme as the way ahead is agreed. In the meantime we have developed our context expertise through working with some smaller INGO partners, and in supporting a legal team involved in a major claim.

Lebanon Daily Star: BEIRUT: Local leaders, members of the security forces and residents of the Tawaara neighborhood in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp met Sunday to discuss the fragile security situation in the camp after a series of explosions and heavy fighting erupted last week. Read the original article here.

This from the BBC: Mexican police have found six charred bodies on a street in the northern border city of Tijuana, bringing the number killed in three days to 14. The six men had their hands bound and heads covered with plastic bags and had been shot or beaten, officials said. The execution-style killings followed [...]

This in from the BBC: Pirates in northern Somalia have freed a Ukrainian ship and its 14-member crew for a ransom of $800,000 (£400,000), officials in the region say. As the vessel’s release was secured, another ship was taken in Puntland off the most northerly tip of the country. Read the original story here.

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