20 September 2005

Stories from 20 September 2005

A Democracy Guy

Democracy Guy, Tim Russo, highlights another democracy guy at work in Armenia.

20 September 2005

Nigeria: Class war

A silent war is being waged, writes Chippla, between the Nigerian working classes who sit and listen to fire and brimstone sermons in the country's many houses of worship, and...

20 September 2005

Uganda: Stretching a point

African Update lauds a report in the U.S. media asking what happened to the condoms in the Ugandan government's anti-HIV/AIDS strategy, but thinks that this may be one thing that...

20 September 2005

Sudan: Give a woman a bicycle

Sleepless in Sudan gets caught up in a gender-skewed debate about the use of bicycles in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camp where she works.

20 September 2005

Uganda: Atrocities continue

“The Ugandan military and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army continue to kill, rape and uproot civilians in northern Uganda with brazen impunity,” says a recent report from Human Rights Watch.

20 September 2005

Zimbabwe: Post-dramatic stress syndrome

Zimpundit deconstructs his country's political drama (“the drama that is no longer a drama”), President Robert Mugabe's visit to the United Nations, and consequently his own political commentary.

20 September 2005

Hong Kong: My territory for a horse

Will Hong Kong's hosting of the 2008 Olympic equestrian events get the territory's racing-obsessed residents out jogging the MacLehose Trail? Hemlock doesn't think so…

20 September 2005

Philippines: Spooky tales

The Sassy Laywer's Journal reports that six members of the U.S. House of Representatives have called for an enquiry into the activities of the CIA in the Philippines.

20 September 2005

Burma: The coasts of Titan

Myanmar blogger Kyaw Oo is taken with newly beamed images of Titan, one of the moons of Jupiter, complete with coastlines, rain and river systems, and seas of liquid methane.

20 September 2005

China: Panyu protest

EastSouthWestNorth posts a long essay about why the land dispute and re-election of the village committee in the Guangdong village of Taishi is worth taking the trouble to follow.

20 September 2005

Kuwait Roundup

Just a little introduction to the Kuwait Blogosphere, we have about 277 blogs listed on KuwaitBlogs.com and most of them are being aggregated on Safat.KuwaitBlogs.com. We have a mixed group...

20 September 2005