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Stories from 9 November 2005

Explosions Rock Jordanian Capital, Amman

Written by Roba Al Assi · Middle East & North Africa

Three explosions hit Jordanian capital Amman Wednesday night; one in Radisson SAS, the second in Hyatt Amman, and the third in Days Inn. For more on the explosions occuring in...

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The Week That Was - Bolivian Blogs

Written by Eduardo Avila · Latin America

An event in Washington DC attracted a lot of attention in the Bolivian blogosphere during the past week. A lecture by former Bolivian President Gonzalo “Goni” Sanchez de Lozada was...

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Cambodian Kids with Swords, Guns, and Poems

Written by Beth Kanter · Cambodia

Last month Jinja captured this photo of these two Cambodian boys playing with toy guns in the streets of Phnom Penh. Even though Jinja played with guns as child, he...

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Nigerian Blogs This Week

Written by Sokari Ekine · Sub-Saharan Africa

POST OF THE WEEK from Naija Jams discusses a recent 419 (scam) article that was floating around the blogosphere and online media. The article appears to have centered on a...

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Wikipedia: The Peruvian Faces Behind the Project

Written by Juan Arellano · Latin America

The following is an excerpt of an interview conducted by Juan Arellano with four Peruvian contributors to Wikipedia and translated by Eduardo Ávila. To read the entire interview in Spanish,...

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Images From Indonesia: Hi, It Stop Working!

Written by Paul Frankenstein · East Asia

“Hi, It Stop Working” by Budi Sukmana A tuk-tuk driver in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, pushes his stalled vehicle and its passengers to safety during a sudden downpour. Note: We...

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Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley · Middle East & North Africa

Well it has been a busy week in the Kurdish Blogosphere. Perhaps the most startling is the infighting between the members of the group blog the Kurdistan Bloggers Union. Having...

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More information on Abdolkarim Suleiman's detention

Written by Ethan Zuckerman · Middle East & North Africa

Our friend Elijah Zarwan writes from Cairo, where he's involved with a number of human rights efforts. He recently travelled to Alexandria to meet with Mohammed Morsi and Malek Moustafa,...

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Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Killers Captured, Khmer-language Software and Phnom Penhers

Written by Tharum Bun · East Asia

Khmer Rouge killers have been captured after three foreign tourists were murdered a decade ago. Tan and Trev wrote that “an Englishman, and Australian and a Frenchman board a train…...

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Updates from 9 November 2005

Venezuela

Oil Wars tries to figure out if the opposition in Venezuela truly wants a better legal system or is just seeking complaints against Chavez.

• David Sasaki

El Salvador

Marie uses her experience in El Salvador to think about corruption's affect on donations to development groups.

• David Sasaki

Colombia

Adam Isacson posts an English translation or an article he wrote in the Colombian daily, El Espectador about recently approved U.S. foreign-aid bill for 2006.

• David Sasaki

Trinidad & Tobago

Taran Rampersad goes over the crime debate that took place in Trinidad and Tobago's Parliament.

• David Sasaki

Chile

Randy Paul and Western Hemisphere Policy Watch both go over former Peruvian president, Alberto Fujimori's arrest in Chile. Boz says that Fujimori critics should remember their history while Juan Arellano has a valuable summary of what Peruvian bloggers are saying (ES) about the arrest.

• David Sasaki

Namibia

Vilho's World - Namibia reports on a scheme by the Council of Churches in Namibia which aims at changing the attitudes of men towards women and children abuse. It also hopes to “strengthen men's responsibility in their families and society at large. The group is to be called NAMEC (Namibian Men for Change)

• Sokari Ekine

Sudan

Uganda-Can reports that Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) will in future be challenged by southern Sudanese forces. Salva Kiir, Sudan's new Vice President has put dealing with the LRA as one of the top three priorites for rebuilding southern Sudan.

• Sokari Ekine

France

Jewels in the Jungle adds his voice to the running commentary on the Paris riots in the blogosphere and wonders what would happen if the riots spread to Germany and possibly the rest of Europe - meanwhile he has his passport, airline ticket, clothes packed and car keys on the ready - lucky fellow to be able to up and run when the HEAT starts.

• Sokari Ekine

Malawian blog afrika-aphukira criticises the reporting of Africa by Western journalists for failing to go beyond “the vivid portrayal of the problems” and “attempt an analysis of the contexts within which these problems occur, African problems are written about in a manner in a manner that portrays Africans as having no clue as to how to solve their own problems, and making no efforts to even understand how and why we end up with such problems”.

• Sokari Ekine

Updates

Meskel Square wonders whether there is “somewhere in the developing world” a special school for training “journalist employed by state-controlled newspapers” who begin their day with “the “mass recitation of: “Government leader A met government leader B to discuss matters of mutual interest. Government leader B reaffirmed his commitment to provide support for the realisation of ideas forwarded by Government leader A.”

• Sokari Ekine