13 September 2005

Stories from 13 September 2005

Kenya: Wi-fi wanderings

George Conard, on his way home to Seattle, checks out the much-vaunted wi-fi connection in Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

13 September 2005

Somaliland: French scholar expelled

Inside Somaliland highlights the expulsion from Somaliland of French academic Roland Marchal, who slammed the summary style of his deportation in a letter to the interior minister.

13 September 2005

Lesotho: Essential phrases

Sotho gives a detailed Sesotho language lesson, covering suffixes which locate something somewhere, how to ask for the toilet, and how to do everything politely.

13 September 2005

Sudan: Trauma report

Sleepless draws our attention to a report by UNICEF on the traumatic effects of the Darfur atrocities, and re-tells a tale that made a prominent African community leader cry in...

13 September 2005

Palestine: Gaza Settlement Tour

Laila Um Yousuf of Raising Yousuf: a diary of a mother under occupation blog writes an interesting article after her first visits to what used to be Israeli settlements in...

13 September 2005

Israel: BBC Bias

Mark Elf of Jews sans frontieres writes about the BBC's pro-Israel biased reporting over the Middle East conflict.

13 September 2005