Stories about Western Europe from June, 2006
DRC: UDPS Sends Delegations to its Diaspora Branches
UDPS Liege posts pictures of recent UDPS meetings involving party delegations from Kinshasa in Liege and Anvers, Belgium. It encourages (Fr) its worldwide members to mobilize for June 30, date...
Trinidad & Tobago: Coming home
Club Soda and Salt responds to fellow Trinidadian blogger Seldo's post about returning home: “I’d like to raise a family there. I’d like to not have to deal with snow....
Trinidad & Tobago: The clash with England
“How dare a man be six foot seven and called Crouch?” writes Jeremy Taylor at the Caribbean Beat Blog, in his entertaining account of Trinidad & Tobago's clash with England...
Ukraine, World Cup: We Sing Better Than Play
Oleksandr of Messages From Canada writes that his Spanish classmates teased him following Spain's victory over Ukraine in the World Cup yesterday.
Poland, World Cup: Almost a Tie
Dayhawk writes on Poland's resistance to Germany during a World Cup game yesterday: “The Polish, who have not won a football match against Germans in 85 years, were shooting for...
French Guiana: French or Brazilian?
Yesterday's Soccer World Cup match featuring Brazil was an eye-opener for Carnet de Guyane who blogs (Fr) from French Guiana: “Do I really live in France? (…) Since the beginning...
World Cup: Running with the Ronaldos in the blogosphere
While the Brazilian team waits for its debut in Germany, it's the buzz around the football personalities that fuels the overheated blogosphere. Brazilians love to talk, and now nothing is...
Rwanda: Mother and Child
Guillaume, an NGO worker in Rwanda, posts (Fr) pictures of Grace, a Rwandan co-worker and newborn Lancelot so that his father who is studying in Belgium can follow his evolution.
Global Food Blog Report #21
#1: After almost a month her blog vanished without reasonable explanation, Chef Ines Peña from Caracas, Venezuela is back with her brand new and improved creation: Apuntes de Cocina. Lets...
Estonia: Homophobia and Racism
Giustino of Itching for Eestimaa and Estonia in World Media (RUS) report that the Dutch Ambassador has decided to leave Estonia due to the recent racist and homophobic attacks on...
Jamaica, UK: Celebrating Zadie's win
JT at the Caribbean Beat Weblog celebrates Zadie Smith's winning the Orange Prize for Fiction: “Zadie Smith is British but counts as Caribbean on account of her Jamaican mother and...
Trindad & Tobago: Looking homeward
London-based Trinidadian blogger Seldo grapples with the idea of returning to Trinidad. In his lengthy and eloquent post he asks hard questions of himself and his homeland and contemplates the...
Global Food Blog Report # 20
We keep a database of delicious food blogs from all over the world, and make sure to follow their creations and stories every week. Being the blogoholic I am, I...
World Cup Fever
As we enter the World Cup week, ripples are turning into waves and everyone is being caught by the peculiar pulse that cannot be denied. Flags are already waving, and those who were until now unaware about the gathering starts to feel a strong urge to join, or else leave the planet.
Belarus: White-Red-White Flag at Roland Garros
TOL's Belarus Blog reports about the white-red-white flag of Belarus being used in Roland Garros tennis tournament broadcasts instead of the official flag.
Belarus: Vitryssland or Not
Tobias Ljungvall writes about the difficulties one faces when not translating ‘Belarus’ into Swedish.
A Monopoly-like Game to Carve out Africa
Mocking Africa, a French Monopoly-like game, Kangni Alem repeats the game's description [“Your goal is to explore, to conquer and to develop [the] new colonies. You will be able to...
Blacks in France: Kofi Yamgnane Contending to be Socialist Party Candidate for Legislative Elections
Kofi Yamgnane, a French politician of Togolese descent and the Vice President of the General Counsel of Finistère [a region in northwestern France] in charge of water management, announces (Fr)...
Senegal: Blogging Mayor Proposes North-South Talks on Migrations
Reflecting on Senegal's drowned migrant crisis and migrations towards the West in general, Robert Sagna, the Mayor of Ziguinchor, Senegal blogs (Fr): “Developed countries (…) build quasi-impenetrable walls through “visas”....
Russia: Finnish Property in Karelia
David McDuff of A Step At A Time reports on a Finnish lawyer who plans to sue Russia over the property in Karelia that used to belong to Finns before...
DRC: Western Press Turnaround
A recent article by Le Monde “finally looks at the Congo with sincere eyes,” says (Fr) blogger Tony Katombe. The article states that the DRC government includes “former war criminals,...