Global Voices Online

The Passion of the Present compiles reports on the deaths of more than 500 people in West African countries in an outbreak of cholera.

Anarchogeek discusses vice-presidential candidate, Alvaro Garcia Linera's connection with Indymedia Bolivia.

Inside Somaliland reports on the beginning of campaigning for the Sept. 26 parliamentary elections.

You may have read an item in this column about the Spotlight on Darfur blogging campaign. Well, as Congo Watch reports, and as Catez Stevens has informed us directly, the date has been moved to Sept. 5 to avoid a clash with Katrina-related efforts.

Diana Zorrilla Ríos asks why so few Peruvian blogs mentioned the recent plane crash in the Amazonion town of Pucallpa [es] and concludes that practically all Peruvian blogs are concentrated in the capitol of Lima, where they focus on. She also links to the five bloggers who did mention the crash.

Black Looks points out the incongruity of a televised beauty contest in Zimbabwe amid mass government-backed demolitions of shanty towns and other human rights abuses.

Quemar las Naves pleads that they stop playing Phil Collins in the Santiago Metro. Beck and The Strokes are suggested replacements.

Miguel of MABB has translated short bios of each of the presidential candidates from the Bolivian daily, La Razon.

Marcia Koth de Paredes writes that “civil society organizations in Peru are increasingly active in the use of Internet to promote ‘transparency' of democratic processes.”