Stories from 28 March 2006
India: Workers left on the streets
A huge store shuts down, and leaves its workers on the streets. Saakshi reports on the closure of AkbarAllys.
India: Bangalore calls
Kamla travels around Bangalore and comments on the infrastructure, politics and issues that are crucial for Bangalore as it grows at breakneck speed.
Bangladesh Blog Buzz:
What the Bangladeshi blogs around the world are saying:
This week in Israel: today is election day
Voting in the Israeli elections. Tel Aviv, March 28. (Photo by Lisa Goldman. Click to enlarge.) Israelis go to the polls to elect a new government today. The media have...
Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago: Jewelery designer
Photographer Stefan Falke profiles Trinidad-based Jamaican jewelery designer Jasmine Thomas-Girvan, and posts some gorgeous photos.
Kenyan Sphere Dispatch
After the kenyan government raid on standard newspaper early this month, (Something that was covered by MSM around the world), there was talk in Kenya of mercenaries operating in Kenya....
Nigeria: Starting from the top
Grandiose Parlor comments on “the anomalies of the Nigerian psyche: we all want to start from the top of the leader. Even when we can hardly crawl, we want to...
Nigeria: Growth of Christianity
Ethnic Loft posts on the growth of Christianity in Africa…”Banners for revivals, sermons and blessings dot nearly every street in Lagos, a teeming flatland of tin-roof shanties and rain-streaked concrete...
Ethiopia: Permanently in debt?
Weichegud!ET comments on the waste of aid money to Ethiopia which has not alliviated poverty and the country is in the midst of yet another drought. She asks why does...
DRC: Counting the animals
Kim Gjerstad who works in the DRC “saving animals and trees” explains how animals are counted..Our teams that cumulate 30 people split themselves in small groups and walk “transects” (straight...
Zimbabwe: Mining & Financial sectors
Eddie Cross writing in Zimbabwean Pundit comments on the mining and financial services sector in Zimbabwe which has survived Zanu PF but have been battered and bruised in the process.
Burundi: war crimes tribunal
Agathon Rwasi calls for the creation of a war crimes tribunal in Burundi and comments on the release of “thousands of people classified as “political prisoners” by a new political...
Sierra Leone: Asylum in Australia
African Migrants reports that 6 of the missing athletes have asked the Australian government for political asylum. Six of the 15 Sierra Leonean have been issued “Temporary Protection Visas”.
African Music Roundup #5
yay! summer is upon us over here in the UK and that only means one thing. concerts, festivals, showcases. An abundance of music, sunshine and outdoor runnings. Smiles on peoples...
Peru: Anti-gay Comments by Presidential Candidate's Mother
Andrés Duque, noting the recent changes in the presidential polls, says that Peru's LGBT community is worried about what a Humala victory would mean for them. Humala's mother was recently...
Colombia: “Alleged Former Paramilitary Named Military Commander”
Sean Donahue lists several reasons why he is concerned that General Mario Montoya was appointed by President Uribe to head Colombia’s armed forces.
