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27 September 2008

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Stories from 27 September 2008

Pakistani bloggers found much to analyze in last night's televised debate between United States presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. What the US approach to Pakistan should be was...

Brazil: Free download of books under CC license

Written by Paula Góes · Quick Reads · Latin America

Jamaica: Dirty Water

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

Syria: Chilling Eyewitness Blogger Account on Damascus Explosion

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

With very little information coming out on today's massive explosion in Damascus, Syria, one blogger was on the site and rushed back to his computer to describe to the world...

Haiti: More than Charity

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

Cuba: Back to Normal?

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Latin America

Jamaica: Child Missing

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

Guyana: Perception Rejection

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

Angola: Photo of an accident in the Cabinda airpot

Written by Paula Góes · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Sierra Leone: No money, no doctor

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Cameroon: The president's time

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria: Post-independece political scene

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria: Impressive Branding

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia: Food aid as a weapon of war

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Bangladesh: Bangla blogs are keeping Rahela alive

Written by Aparna Ray · Bangladesh

On 19th August 2004, a nineteen year old garment factory worker in Savar, Dhaka Bangladesh was mugged, gang raped, viciously slashed and then left to die in the thickety Jahangir...