Global Voices Online

The Tashkent-based All-Knowing-Blog reports of many supermarkets remaining closed during the past couple of days (RUS).

By posting photos of last year's Kyrgyz Revolution, Edil Baisalov looks at the people that were behind the ousting of former President Akayev (RUS).

Sotho on the state of politics in Lesotho, “Has the government of Lesotho taken a leave of absence? Are our leaders out of their minds? Instead of acquiring a Toyota Camry, how about doing something for joblessness, for AIDS patients?”

Mshairi announces the 1st Carnival of African Women, which will be held in cyberspace on Monday October 9th, 2006: “To participate in the premier Carnival, we are asking contributors to write a piece on Blogging and Identity and publish it on their blogs. Please feel free to interpret the topic as broadly as you wish - long, short, a poem, a piece of prose or photos.”

Black Looks writes about recycling war in Africa, “The reality is war is big business and Africa is a prime market - sell the weapons, destroy and then rebuild, then sell some more and so on - recycling war.”