Stories from 4 June 2006
Latest in the Francophone African Blogosphere
PAN-AFRICAN For the United States of Africa Le Pangolin is fervently advocating for the dissolution of the current borders that separate African countries and that, he believes, weaken each individual African country: Je suis pour des Etats-Unis d’Afrique par zone géographique ou linguistique, car cela va permettre d’impliquer l’ensemble des...
Iran: Photos & Matyrdom seekers
Farzaneh Khademian, photoblogger & photographer, has exposed several photos of Iranian Martydom seekers in Tehran.
Iran: A video on the underground youth
Berkely Forum blog has given a link to a very interesting video on the underground youth culture in Iran. We can see in this video different opinions about iranian government and interesting night life scenes.
The Week That Was in Bahrain
With temperatures soaring above 45 degrees Celcius, summer is hot in Bahrain. And it is getting hotter, thanks to the escalating war being waged against local telecommunications company Batelco, which has changed its Internet packages overnight in newspaper announcements and emails to customers on May 11. To add insult to...
Haiti: President and Mangos
AyitiCherieConnexion reacts (Fr) to a recent AlterPresse article about threats to Haitian mango production and exports by saying: “In essence the article warns us that Haiti risks loosing its place as a top producer of mangos (…) if the Haitian government does not intervene in regulating this industry. Don't we...
China: June 4th:Silence, Memorial and Blogger's Saying
Today it's June 4th, the 17th anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre, which marked the end of student democracy movement in Beijing and nationwide lasting from March to June, 1989. The communist party of China still did not recognize this mass incident as peaceful protest of students, who used demonstration and...