Stories from 14 December 2005
Bangladesh: Zionism
Bangladesh: Zionism
Nepal: Media Ordinance
Nepal: Media Ordinance
India, Nepal: For the migrant community
India, Nepal: For the migrant community
Morocco – Gnawa and Clichy-sous-Bois
Africa's favorite music blog, Benn loxo du taccu returns to Clichy-sous-Bois (Paris riots!) to watch a Gnawa concert by Moroccan musician Hmida Boussou.…”The point of the trip was then two-fold: to check-out this place so badly portrayed in the media as a centre of racial hatred and burning cars, and...
Rwanda: Living and working with HIV
On Safari with El Jorgito writes about meeting with a Rwandan woman called Marie who he describes as being “exceptional woman, indicative of the resilience and strength of people (and women in particular) in this country.”
Zimbabwe: passport seized
The Bearded Man from Zimbabwe writes about a man who is appealing to the High Court for the return of his passport which was siezed by the government.…”He cites that the confiscation was “made in disregard of rules of natural justice, procedural and substantive fairness.”
Chad: firing on children demonstrators
Aqumada writes that yet another African Government has opened fire on children demonstrating.………The world has sat and watched similar recent atrocities in Ethiopia and Uganda…. This has clearly given the Chadian government the green light to go ahead and do the same. This is precisely why the spineless African Union...
Nigeria: soyabean production
Timbuktu Chronicles reports that Tofu is proving to be a big earner for women entrepreneurs in Nigeria which last year produced 500,000 tons of soya beans. Nutritionally the soyabean is a perfect food as it carries ” twice the protein of meat or poultry and contain all eight essential amino...
Ethiopia/Sudan telephone link
Friends of Ethiopia writes that plans are underway to build a telephone fibre optic link between Ethiopia and Sudan...”Ethiopia and Sudan, two of the world's poorest and least-wired nations, want to expand information and communication technologies coverage to the respective country in the future”
Nigeria: Internet convention
Oro announces the Third Nigerian Internet Convention which runs this weekend on Friday and Saturday.
Uganda: Jewish community
Mzansi Afrika has a post on the Jewish community in Uganda..”I had no idea that Uganda is home to a small ethnic Jewish community. They live in the eastern Ugandan town of Mbale and are known as the Abayudaya, which is the Luganda word for Jews.The community was founded by...
Voices from the Horn of Africa and Sudan
Our look at what bloggers in the Horn of the African continent and Sudan are saying begins in Darfur and with some good news. Sleepless in Sudan is reporting that the ban on commercial traffic in one of the refugee camps called Kalma has been lifted. In its own words:...
Voices From Zimbabwe Plus
Zimbabwe: With the elections gone and the country firmly in their grip, the ruling ZANU-PF unravelled their newest ploy to silence hostilities from their own citizens. Trevor Ncube, the publisher of two of Zimbabwe's independent newspapers The Independent and The Standard, and leading South African titles the Mail and Guardian,...
Iran: TV & Public Opinion
Haji, a cleric blogger, thinks that TV in Iran is canalising public opinion. During last weeks of Khatami,TV always talked about inflation but now it has become not even a secondary issue. (Link in Persian)
Air Plane Crash: Anger & Sorrow
A military transport plane crashed in a residential district in Tehran, at 6th of December, killing more than 100 people including many journalists and reporters who were air plane passengers. Iranian government tried to blame pilot and American embargo as reasons for this tragedy but voices raised among bloggers, journalists...
