Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2006 October 05

5 October 2006

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Stories from 5 October 2006

Blogging Tunisia: whisper!

Written by sami ben gharbia · Middle East & North Africa

Roughly a year ago, the Tunisian weekly newspaper, Tunis Hebdo has published an article about the Tunisian Blogs [Fr] in which the author, Zouhour Harbaoui, shaped a frivolous image of...

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US secret detentions: from hotel room to squalid prison cell

Written by Gavin Simpson · North America

When President George W. Bush confirmed in a speech last month that the CIA has been operating a programme of secret detentions on foreign territory, it was portrayed by the...

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Serbia: Debate on Media Depiction of Kosovo Children

Written by Ljubisa Bojic · Eastern & Central Europe

B92 news have reported on the journalist association's reaction to the alleged mistreatment of children from Kosovo and Metohia (in further text K&M) during a talk show on national TV....

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Cuba: The dengue problem

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Latin America

The video above appeared on YouTube on September 29, 2006, with no accompanying information but the tags “cuba” and “dengue“. Linked earlier this week by The Real Cuba, it appears...

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Voices from Kazakhstan

Written by Leila Tanayeva · Central Asia & Caucasus

After a break in voicing the Kazakh bloggers, caused by neweurasia team doing outreach in Central Asia, we present you the newest roundup of online conversations in Kazakhstan. Several major...

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Hong Kong: Flash mob rape and disney bomb threat

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

A 42 years old man's Internet messages inviting others to join him in a “flash mob rape” has resulted in Hong Kong's first conviction for outraging public decency through expressions...

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Updates from 5 October 2006

Museke writes about Anti-Corruption Song Contest in Namibia,
“This is a worthy effort to make use of music in educating the populace about an issue that is paramount in African societies today - corruption.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Tajikistan

Alexander Sadikov says that Tajikistan's president is emulating Uzbekistan's by not only creating loyal political parties, but also by reforming existing ones to create an impression of multiparty democracy.

• Nathan Hamm

South Africa

“Before a patrol the South Africans in Sector 6 do an organised and structured final inspection before going. Sector 6 is currently still the most dangerous sector in Darfur,” writes Werner Klokow, a South African soldier with the African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, Sudan, who keeps a photoblog.

• Ndesanjo Macha