6 September 2005

Stories from 6 September 2005

Aruba: Natural Bridge Collapses

Lost in Smallness reports that the same day a judge released all three suspects in the Natalee Holloway case, Aruba's famed Natural Bridge collapses.

6 September 2005

Trinidad and Tobago: Podcast

After a brief absence, Caribbean Free Radio's 30th podcast covers Hurricane Katrina, remembers the Martiniquans who died on a plane crash in Venezuela, and has plenty of good music from...

6 September 2005

Peru: Bloggers and Online Radio

As Diana Zorrilla Ríos notes, PeruBlogs is trying out an online radio station where listeners can send their requests via Instant Messenger. They are also looking for more volunteer DJ's,...

6 September 2005

Ecuador: 600 Registered Blogs

Eduardo Ochoa of Li-1 notes that Ecuablogs, which he helped set up just a few months ago, already has more than 600 registered bloggers. The 600th blog, from Quito, is...

6 September 2005

Uzbekistan: Avoiding isolation

Registan revisits the argument that it would be a mistake for the United States entirely to cut off ties with Uzbekistan over its human rights record.

6 September 2005

Ethiopia: 21st century Maoism

Ethiopundit dissects his country's ruling ideology, “Revolutionary democracy”, exposing language and concepts which would be strangely familiar to anyone raised on Mao Zedong Thought.

6 September 2005

Estonia: Tree cult

Bonjour l'Estonie describes the custom in Estonia of setting aside large individual trees as landmarks and tourist attractions.

6 September 2005

Azerbaijan: Voter registration drive

Marianna Idrisova Gurtovnik writes about efforts to ensure widespread voter registration ahead of the Azerbaijan elections in November, especially in the mostly ethnic Armenian region of Nagorno Karabakh.

6 September 2005

Kenya: Halliburton contract

Kenya-based Mental Acrobatics highlights the awarding of a multi-million dollar reconstruction contract in hurricane-hit Louisiana and Mississippi to Halliburton, a company with strong ties to U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney.

6 September 2005

Kenya: First birthday

Kenyan blogger Mshairi celebrates one year in the blogosphere, looking back on 12 months of life, love, poetry, Africa and gender activism.

6 September 2005

Sudan: Love and aid

Sleepless in Sudan has found a man! and blogs hilariously about what can go wrong with a date in Darfur…

6 September 2005

Kenya: Katrina poetry

Kenya Democracy Project posts a long poem and photos depicting the ravages of Katrina, and picks up on the infamous (white) “finders” and (black) “looters” captions on AFP photos out...

6 September 2005