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21 March 2012

Mali: Facing Secession and Food Crisis as Elections Loom

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · Sub-Saharan Africa

Mali is currently facing critical challenges while preparing for the presidential elections on April 29. After the fall of Gaddafi in Libya, returning Tuareg armed groups posted there threaten to seek secession for the Azawad territory, or Northern Mali.

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20 March 2012

Video: Surfers, Fishermen and Radiation in Post Earthquake Japan

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · East Asia

Journalist Lisa Katayama and filmmaker Jason Wishnow are documenting the lives of people dealing with radiation in a post-earthquake Japan. In We Are All Radioactive, they are including 50% footage made by themselves in the areas around Fukushima Power Plant, and 50% footage made by residents who were given waterproof digital cameras.

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29 February 2012

Taiwan: Say No to Ractopamine Tainted American Meat

Written by I-fan Lin · East Asia

Ractopamine, a leanness-enhancing feed additive, is banned in Taiwan and more than 150 other countries. However, under pressure from the US government, the newly elected Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou is now considering lifting the ban.

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Cuba, USA: Blogger Perspectives on the Embargo's 50th Anniversary (Part 1)

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

The United States' economic embargo against Cuba has been in existence for 50 years. To mark the occasion, Global Voices interviews two bloggers about the blockade and what it has (or hasn't) accomplished. This is Part 1, in which Cuban diaspora blogger Alberto de la Cruz shares his views.

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13 February 2012

China: Online Protest Against the Bear Bile Business

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

Since early 2011, Gui Zhentang, China's largest bear bile medicine producer, has been trying to apply for stock market launch on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Last year, the application was turned down as a result of netizens' protests. Oiwan Lam updates the issue.

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20 January 2012

Cuba: Bloggers React to Death of Hunger Striker

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

It has been a sad day for the Cuban blogosphere, as netizens received news of the death of political prisoner Wilman Villar Mendoza, who has been on a hunger strike since last November.

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5 January 2012

China 2011: From Jasmine Crackdowns to Grassroots Uprisings

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

From the crackdowns on any Jasmine revolution and grassroots uprisings, to debates about future development models, 2011 was another eventful year for China. Oiwan Lam rounds up.

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29 December 2011

China: Dairy Company's Website Hacked by Angry Netizens

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

The latest round of tainted milk scandals broke out last week in China. The country's biggest dairy producer, Mengniu Dairy Co., admitted that some of its milk products contained aflatoxin...

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27 December 2011

A Radical Solution For Global Poverty: Open Borders

Written by Lova · Translated by Andreea Ungureanu · Sub-Saharan Africa

Various experts say that extreme poverty isn't inevitable. The most radical solution to drastically reducing global poverty would be, for many economic experts, opening the borders between countries and allowing workers to migrate where labor is most needed.

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21 December 2011

Armenia-Azerbaijan: Garlic Wars

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

With tensions high between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a result of a still unresolved territorial dispute, the appearance of Azerbaijani garlic in Armenian supermarkets has made some local media hysterical.

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Updates about Food

14 March 2012

Senegal

Khady discovers exotic local produce in Senegal: “Recently I challenged myself to start discovering some of the more exotic local produce available on the vendors’ stands in Senegal. I started this week. Well, kind of. I ventured beyond my norm, but the fruit that appeared in my kitchen came from friend, not a vendor. Anyway…Meet the baobab fruit, also known as monkey bread or pain de singe.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Cuba

“Citizens are divided between those who fear that its disappearance will result in hunger among the poor and those who believe that it is cheaper to subsidize people than products”: The Cuban embargo isn't the only thing that recently turned 50 - so has the Cuban ration book. Havana Times explains.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

12 March 2012

China

Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated mainland Chinese media report on the recent demonstration by Taiwanese pig farmers against the importation of U.S beef and mainland Chinese netizens' response on the issue.

• Oiwan Lam

10 March 2012

Ghana

Davida reviews restaurants offering Ghanaian food in London: “Eating soul food in London is a unique connection with the motherland that cannot be broken. Indigenous food – or ‘home chow’ – is a big deal. Thankfully, nestling among the various boroughs of London is a proliferation of African markets from Dalston to Peckham, Tottenham to Leytonstone, Harlesden to Brixton and beyond that caters for this specific need.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

8 March 2012

China

C Custer from China Geeks introduced a satirical animation on the future of Chinese young generation whose lives are threaten by the immoral society.

• Oiwan Lam

Philippines

PinoyRice Knowledge Bank is an online source of information to help Filipino rice farmers improve their productivity. The modules in the website are available in 5 local languages.

• Mong Palatino

6 March 2012

Cuba

On the heels of a visit from the Archbishop of Havana, Uncommon Sense questions the motives behind “cut[ting] off all communication between [a political prisoner on hunger strike] and his family”.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

24 February 2012

Cuba

“Eliot Ness and his group in Chicago…[have] a female version in Cuba”: Iván's File Cabinet blogs about the country's “Iron Lady”.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

17 February 2012

Sao Tome and Principe

Brazilian journalist Dani Moura, from Jornal Futura, published on her Youtube channel a series of short pieces on Sao Tome and Principe: she reported on education and children feeding in schools, on capoeira for social inclusion, and women entrepreneurship. She also interviewed the artists Kwame Sousa and Tomé Coelho [all links in pt].

• Sara Moreira

15 February 2012

Updates

Edward Ojulu wrote on The Rwanda Focus blog: “…. over the last five years, more than one million more Rwandans gained access to adequate food, safe drinking water, good health and education services among others.”

• Abdoulaye Bah