11 November 2005

Stories from 11 November 2005

Costa Rica: Presidential Candidate Blog

J.D. Clarke has discovered that presidential candidate, Oscar Arias has a weblog (ES), which is built with the open source software b2evolution, but so far lacks content. It seems Arias...

12 November 2005

Costa Rica: Political Discontent

La versión original de este artículo está disponible en español. Translated by David Sasaki. All pages linked in this article are in Spanish. Everyone is talking about the same thing....

12 November 2005

Images from Azerbaijan: Standing For Democracy

“Azadliq Supporter” by commonroman This photo shows a supporter of Azerbaijan's opposition Azadliq (“Freedom”) electoral bloc standing outside one of the bloc's buildings two days after last weekend's parliamentary elections....

12 November 2005

Iran: Join WTO!

Golbang says Saudi Arabia has become a new member of World Trade Organization. Blogger asks when Iran will become a member. Among 191 United Nations members only 42 countries are...

11 November 2005

Iran: Ahmadinejad's Ministers

Jamile Kadiver, a former deputy in Iranian parliament a London based blogger, writes: Ahmadinejad's choices for his Ministers are based on friendship neighbourhood & family ties rather than their qualification...

11 November 2005

Egyptian Parliamentary Elections

Few, besides the ones that were already content with the Egyptian status quo or the Muslim Brotherhood, are happy with the outcome of yesterday’s elections. Big Pharaoh considers immigrating, an idea Sandmonkey reports that sentiment is being echoed in the country (except from one of his friends that concludes that “Islam is the solution”.)

11 November 2005

Doctor Blyth in Jos Nigeria

Pediatrician blogger, Mike Blythe of Kid's Doc in Jos blog, celebrates the arrival of much needed children's medicine. “A celebration … the children’s medicines we had been awaiting for months...

11 November 2005

Nigeria: Dokubu Asari

Pambazuka News reports on the hunger strike of Nigerian “militant” from the Niger Delta, Dokubu Asari. Asari is protesting against his arrest and continued detention in solitary confinement.

11 November 2005

Feminism

Diary of a Mad Kenyan Woman discusses “Perspectives on Feminism and the Epistemology of Africanist Collaboration”

11 November 2005

Africa: Western ambassadors

Zimbabwean Pundit quotes Pan-Africanist writer, Baffour Ankomah, who “irked by the constant delvings of western ambassadors in Africa wants to know what Africa's diplomats in the west are doing that...

11 November 2005

EthiopiaL Geffrey Sachs

Ethiopian blogger Wonkette of Weichegud!Et Politics returns to her/his childhood days in Addis Ababa where his neighbours were expat Brits working for an NGO. s/he made friends with the daughter...

11 November 2005

Book Review: Skin Folk

As part of his discussion on race and science fiction, Ramblings of an African geek, reviews “Skin Folk” a collection of short stories by African Americna writer Nalo Hopikinson. “The...

11 November 2005

Blog Africa

Ethan Zuckerman's My Heart's in Accra announces the resurrection of Blog Africa – the African blogs aggregator.

11 November 2005