Chile: Covered in WiMax

Pablo Bastidas (ES) and FayerWayer (ES) both comment on Entel‘s recent announcement to blanket 14 of Chile's biggest cities with WiMax internet access.

Mexico: Día de la Virgen

Happy Día de la Virgen. Calypso MX has a description while photographer Carlos Bravo offers his own contribution, which resonates wide amongst the Flickr community.

Lebanese Bloggers Outraged at Journalist Slaying

(Artwork, Beirut Spring) Today, a prominent anti-Syrian politician and Journalist was killed in a car-bomb explosion in Beirut. The Lebanese bloggers were quick to show their disgust, shock and fury. Rampurple explains what Gebran Tueni meant to her: Gebran Tueni was the person who gave me hope through his editorials,...

Sudan: Darfur children

Passion of the Present writes on a UNICEF project to provide safe places for refugee children to help them overcome trauma and malnutrition…..UNICEF is supporting 46 ‘child-friendly spaces’ in five refugee camps in eastern Chad, where families have fled the fighting in the neighbouring Darfur region of Sudan.

India: Women's War

India: Women's War

Zimbabwe: WOZA

This is Zimbabwe - reports on WOZA – Women of Zimbabwe Arise – who took to the streets of Harare on Saturday 10th December which was Human Rights Day. During the demonstration women were assulted by security forces and some of them arrested….”By noon five women from the Harare protest...

India: Sitting MPs and Ducks

India: Sitting MPs and Ducks

India: Urban spaces

India: Urban spaces

Zimbabwe: WOZA

This is Zimbabwe - reports on WOZA – Women of Zimbabwe Arise – who took to the streets of Harare on Saturday 10th December which was Human Rights Day. During the demonstration women were assulted by security forces and some of them arrested….”By noon five women from the Harare protest...

Mzansi Afrika reports about the policy of evictions in African urban centers – this time in Lagos Nigeria….”Police broke down the gate of a huge housing complex to oust thousands of civil servants and their families last Friday in the latest mass eviction by a government struggling to gain control...

Africa: trade not aid

African Unchained writes that Africa needs trade not aid……”The best thing that America and Europe can do for Africa is not to give it handouts but to reduce trade barriers and buy the products that Africa is capable of producing competitively — not just agricultural products but also labor-intensive manufactured...

Bangladesh: Why the violence

Bangladesh: Why the violence

Nepal: Communist Party meet

Nepal: Communist Party meet

Liberia: Illegal mining continues.

Black Star Journal writes on a Global Witness report which states “An upsurge in illegal diamond mining and logging by ex-combatants in Liberia is undermining international efforts to promote good governance and stability in the worn torn West African country, and could fuel a return to warlordism.”

Kenya: Lazy press

Kenyan Pundit comments on the amnesia of the Kenyan Press….”I think the Kenyan press is no less complicit and it is time that they should be taken to task. For instance, why were Kenyans overseas complaining that they were not getting a good sense of things on the ground from...

Pakistan: Kite Flying

Pakistan: Kite Flying

Nigeria: plane crash

Grandiose Parlour reports on yet another plane crash in Nigeria which killed 101 people half of whom were children……….”The incessant and unnecessary loss of lives in Nigeria is nothing but appalling. This is a nation where thousands die each year from preventable causes like poor access to health care, and...

Ethiopia: Pro Meles website

Redeem Ethiopia reports on a new “propaganda” website called “Himbasha Commentary” which they believe is an online outlet for the EPRDF (Meles Party) in Ethiopia….”We are convinced that the intended audience for this website is groups who are already supporters of the present ruling class in Ethiopia. The article foot...

Kenya: Blogs unlimited

MentalAcrobatics introduces the new Kenyan Unlimited Open Blog – “There have been waves in the Kenyan blogosphere with the launch of the KenyaUnlimited Open Blog. This Open Blog is an experimental blog featuring contributions from the members of the Kenyan Blogs Webring. Through these contributions you will be able to...

African women's blogsphere this week

Black Looks writes about an interesting development in the Central African Republic which has banned the media from broadcasting or writing misogynistic music and articles following the Communication Minister’s directive and hopes ‘other countries will follow his lead’. Nyakehu writes about a question she was asked at a job interview...

This Week in Palestinian Blogs: Remembering The Forgotten Faithful

The past week witnessed Palestinian calls for the release of the four CPT and ISM hostages who were abducted on the 29th of Novemeber in Iraq. Demonstrations were held in Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah. Press conferences were held and statements were made by the different Palestinian political parties demanding the...