Stories from 9 August 2010
Nigeria: The humorous side of life in Lagos
Mypenmypaper continues his series of humorous observations about life in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city.
Armenia: Being Queer in Yerevan
Bekhsoos, a queer Arab magazine, features a guest post by Canadian-Armenian Adrineh Macaan on life as a lesbian in Yerevan, the Armenian capital.
Georgia: United Nations protest
To mark the second anniversary of the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway territory of South Ossetia, The Young Georgians posts photographs of a demonstration held...
Mexico: Possible López Obrador and Cárdenas Family Reconciliation
The Mexican politics blog Aguachile writes about a possible reconciliation between Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Cárdenas family.
Iran: Unifying Filtering
Iranian authorities announced [fa] that filtering policy will be unified in country. According to Islamic Republic's authorities an Iranian company, whose name was not announced, has won the contract to...
India: Oil Spill In Mumbai
Srinivasan Sampathkumar from Triplicane, Chennai informs in details how an oil tanker collided with a container ship containing hazardous chemicals in Mumbai shore starting an oil spill.
Bangladesh: A Different Kind Of Party
Shahnaz at Dhaka Dweller posts pictures of a glamorous birthday party of her dog Candy.
Pakistan: Convenient Blogging And Bloggers
Salman Latif criticizes the Pakistani blogosphere for concentrating on populist issues rather than the important issues that plague the country.
India: Privacy And The UID Project
Is there a pressing need for clearer privacy norms in India considering the Unique Identification Data (UID) project of the governemnt? Shamnad Basheer at Law and Other Things discusses the...
Sierra Leone: Aging Alone
“Most elderly people in Africa live in their communities, but in Sierra Leone so many young people died and so many communities were destroyed that what started as a poor...
South Africa: Unforgotten Faces
Sokari writes about Artscape Women’s Festival 2010 where Zanele Muholi and Ellen Eisenman have produced photographs that celebrate women’s lives.
Angola: Karpov, Kasparov to visit Angola
Edwin Korir reports that the great Russian Chess masters, Antoli Karpov and Gary Kasparov are set to arrive in Angola in September to take part in a forum dubbed “The...
Kenya: Blogging in financial industry
Marvin Tumbo discusses financial industry bloggers in Kenya: “There are financial bloggers out there with the most prominent financial bloggers in Kenya among them being Bankelele, Kainvestor, The Way I...
Rwanda: Rwanda Votes
Graham Holiday blogs about presidential election in Rwanda: “Kigali residents were out in numbers this morning to vote in the 2010 Presidential election. Voting was scheduled to begin at 6am....
Rwanda: Election day in pictures
Presidential election took place today in Rwanda. Here are election day pictures from Paul Kagame Fan Club.
Cuba: Interview with Fidel
Havana Times blogs about tonight's upcoming interview with ex Cuban President Fidel Castro, in which he will reportedly discuss “the threats of a US-Israeli war against Iran, the tense situation...
Haiti: Does Class have an Impact?
“The Jan. 12 earthquake reveals that the principal fault-line in Haiti is not geological but one of class”: Haitianalysis.com says “a small handful of rich families own large tracts of...
Guyana: Manatees
“Georgetown has TWO herds of manatees. Imagine!”: Lifespan of a Chennette pays them a visit.
Haiti: Thoughts on Wyclef
While Currents Between Shores respects Wyclef Jean's bid for the Haitian presidency, she also thinks “his passion is naive, his vision is vague and short-sighted and that just because he...
Barbados: On Governance
“Barbadians have been amazed that a stalwart of the Democratic Labour Party…has come out in public to lambaste Minister Michael Lashley for operating in breach of the law when it...
Morocco: “My Summer With a Book”
In a world steeped in digital technology, and where tablets and e-book readers are getting cheaper and more accessible to a larger public every day, will there be a place left for good old printed books? For some Moroccan bloggers the answer is yes and technology is there to prove them right.
