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14 November 2005

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Stories from 14 November 2005

Ethiopia: Government by trikery

Ethiopundit reports on the BBC news item stating that the Ethiopian government had released 2,417 who had been detained during last weeks demonstrations. However, Ethiopundit points out that “We only...

Written by Sokari Ekine
14 November 2005

Zimbabwe: life in Harare

Harare Diary by Fire Pussy is thinking that living in Zimbabwe is like living in a constant state of “maybe” where failure has become a way of life. “When you...

Written by Sokari Ekine
14 November 2005

Ghana: WSIS

The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen is in Tunis attending the WSIS conference and from his two reports he seems to be in awe of the city and...

Written by Sokari Ekine
14 November 2005

Burundi: Agathon Rwasa

Agathon Rwasa reports that outgoing Tanzania president, Benjamin Mkapa, will ask the next government to ensure that Burundian rebel leader Agathon Rwasa of the PALIPEHUTU-FNL does not operate from Tanzania.

Written by Sokari Ekine
14 November 2005

China: Bothered by the BBC

Worried that he'd be forced to focus on censorship & politics, Chinese blogger wangpei canceled an interview with the BBC on the Chinese bloggers’ conference, and feels thankful that he...

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
14 November 2005

China: Profiles in Courage

On the often excellent We Observe the World, two profiles of different kinds of courage: a portrait of a migrant fruit seller and a muckraking news program.

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
14 November 2005

China, Taiwan: Self-Criticism

EastSouthWestNorth explains why he covers China, Taiwan and Hong Kong the way he does — why he selects the stories he translates and posts and how he approaches each geopolitical...

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
14 November 2005

Vietnam: Dead Fishes

Vietnamese God notices people have been collecting the dead fish that have been appearing in Truc Bach Lake, and worries about why.

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
14 November 2005

African women blogging this week

Mama JunkYard who has been on a blogging hiatus is back and is disgusted by the use of vague, incorrect and ‘less offensive words’ and images to sanitise women's bodies...

Written by Nish Matenjwa
14 November 2005

KenyanSphere This Week

FreakEngineer objects, and objects again to how Yahoo categorizes the news on its news page, specifically those to do with Africa, finding the rationale decidedly wanting: It seems that everything sad...

Written by Marc
14 November 2005
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