Global Voices · Citizen media stories from July 2006

July, 2006

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Stories from July, 2006

31 July 2006

DRC: Post-Election Roundup

Written by Alice Backer · Sub-Saharan Africa

“A Peaceful Election” Congolese at the polls. Photo by Federico, courtesy of Extra Extra. By and large, the voting has ended in the DRC, according to The Salon: With the...

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China: reticence: would-be lesbians, corporate executives and urban journalists

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Ever wonder why there was no male version of 2004's smash television phenomenon Super Girl? While a lesbian conspiracy might have made for better Communist Party PR positioning than news...

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This Week In Palestinian Blogs: World On Fire

Written by Naseem Tarawnah · Middle East & North Africa

While the flames of war engulf Lebanon, Gaza is still under attack. Many of the victims have been Palestinian children, some barely a year old; and as their families prepare...

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Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome

Written by Salam Adil · Middle East & North Africa

With all the war and suffering I just don't feel like blogging. But todays post is important and I feel it is my duty to write it. If you read...

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30 July 2006

Food Blog Report #26

Written by Melissa De León · Middle East & North Africa, Eastern & Central Europe

#1: From Denmark, KristianPetersen.com and his original "Peach, chili and garlic soup with chicken" It´s essensial for a starter to have a great, not to spicy taste, to be light,...

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Bangladesh blog buzz

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

The latest happenings in Bangladesh related blogs around the world:

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DRC: Optimism on Eve of Landmark Election

Written by Jennifer Brea · Sub-Saharan Africa

Foli Kat, a new blogger based in the US, has been following Global Voices's coverage of Congolese bloggers writing about the July 30th election and has a very different perspective...

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29 July 2006

Venezuelans will be holding the funniest elections in the country history. Entertainer Benjamin Rausseo, better known as Er’ Conde del Guacharo (Count of Guacharo), announced this week that he will...

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The Week That Was in Bahrain

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Local events took the sidelines as Bahrain bloggers turned their attention to the war ravaging Lebanon this week.

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28 July 2006

Russia, Ukraine: Stories About Words

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Below is the translation of three stories about words: in the first one, they are being banned; in the second, they offend; in the third, there aren't enough of them....

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Updates from July, 2006

31 July 2006

Georgia

Ana praises Georgia's new higher education entrance exams, which are designed to limit opportunities for corruption and ensure that students entering higher education institutions are adequately educated and prepared for higher degrees.

• Nathan Hamm

Georgia

Vasili Rukhadze has a detailed and informative post on Georgia's recent capture of the Kodori Gorge from a rebel warlord, noting the significance of the event in Georgian and regional politics. He says that Georgia's success mark the beginning of a new era in Georgian politics.

• Nathan Hamm

Uzbekistan

The Long and Winding Road has a report on Uzbek pop musicians losing their licenses to perform in public after a journalist accused their lyrics of not being authentic Uzbek poetry and them of being bad musicians.

• Nathan Hamm

South Africa

Electric Spaghetti, otherwise known as Saaleha, reels in her man after a spontaneous and florid response to a “419″ spam/scam-mail in her Inbox.

• Luisetta Mudie

Nigeria

“Lagos,” writes Jangbalajugbu, “is a city that habours the hardworking as well as the lazy. The sane and insane. It is a city with different kinds of people from the rich, educated, wealthy, brilliant & intelligent to the dejected, the accursed, the incorrigible, the hopeless, the dead but breathing-walking corpses, the pathetic and the depressed among others.”

• Luisetta Mudie

South Africa

Writes Farrel Lifson at politics.za, South Africa's largest trade union COSATU gets a lot of media exposure, but still has fewer than two million members.

• Luisetta Mudie

Russia: The RuNet's Top 10 Political Slang Words

In my opinion, the only slang from this list which is falling out of vogue is the nickname of Medvedev...
I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The other slang words are not...