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21 July 2006

Daily archive · 4 posts

Stories from 21 July 2006

Ganji's Hunger Strike & Lebanon Conflict

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Dissident journalist Akbar Ganji and his supporters called for a three days hunger strike to attract attention on Iranian political prisoners. Several bloggers have talked about this hunger strike movement...

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French-Speaking Bloggers on Rabat Conference on Migration

Written by Alice Backer · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

What Will the Conference Bring? Says France-based African blogger Le Pangolin, Du 10 au 11 juillet 2006, s'est tenue à Rabat au Maroc, la première rencontre interministérielle euro-africaine sur les...

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Bloggers on Virtual India

Written by Kamla Bhatt · South Asia

Virtual India is a different place, when compared to the real India. Bloggers cut through geographnical and physical barriers and come together and this week's blog ban highlighted this virtual India, and how different it is....

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Blogs are Improving Citizen Concerns

Written by Rosario Lizana · Latin America

You’re riding on the highway at maximum speed (120 K/H), talking with a friend, calm. Suddenly a public bus passes you so fast that curiosity gets ahold of you: how...

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Updates from 21 July 2006

East Timor

Samantha at samanddaniel blog dispels rumours that Australia was involved in the unseating of former East Timorese Prime Minister. “I believe the recent trouble all comes down to the incompetence and inexperience of a new government left to fend for itself without adequate ongoing international support coupled with the arrogance of a PM and his Ministers who decided that the dismissal of nearly one third of their military personnel was not worth addressing.”

• Preetam Rai

Pan-African News Wire reproduces an article from Cuban news daily Granma, announcing plans for a concert to celebrate Fidel Castro's 80th birthday celebrations on August 11-12 in Havana. The concert will feature several “top protest and ballad singers of Latin America” as well as South African star Miriam Makeba.

• Georgia Popplewell

Jamaica

Charles Nesson announces that he is hosting a programme on the the Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica on August 1 (Jamaica's Emancipation and Independence Day) “in which Jamaican leaders talk with me about Jamaica’s journey to freedom and the issues of emancipation and independence which still confront them.” The programme will be followed by a series of discussions featuring prime ministers of Jamaica.

• Georgia Popplewell

Kyrgyzstan

Breed writes about the charms of the bazaar in the Kyrgyz city of Osh and the lessons it holds for those who might find themselves in post-Soviet airports.

• Nathan Hamm