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31 July 2006

Daily archive · 4 posts

Stories from 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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Updates from 31 July 2006

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

Armenia

Zarchka reports on the outcome of “Hye Super Star,” Armenia's version of “Pop Idol.”

• 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

Azerbaijan

At neweurasia, Delia explores whether oil revenues will be good or bad for Azerbaijan.

• 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

Nigeria

Detectives from Scotland Yard have just arrived in Nigeria to help with the investigation into the murder of politician Funsho Williams who died last week in Lagos, writes UKNaija. “If they fail, I can just imagine the Nigerian government crowing ‘Well, even the experts from Scotland Yard couldn't crack it, so you can't blame us, can you?'”

• Luisetta Mudie

Zimbabwe

Eddie Cross on Zimpundit posts in its entirety the speech given by former union leader and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to a National Convention held by Churches in Zimbabwe Saturday to debate the crisis in the country, and the way forward.

• 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