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Jackfruity writes, “It's a horrifically crass thing to joke about, but here at Jackfruity we're all about crassness (not to mention ending clauses with dangling prepositions), so I'll go ahead and say it: if I had 100 shillings for every time I've been asked to take a Ugandan child back to the States with me, I'd be able to…well, I'd be able to take a Ugandan child back to the States with me.”

The idea of selling Kenyans abroad digital newspapers is great, but poorly executed.

With the “Borat” movie appearing in theaters today, Sean Roberts asks if Americans really get the joke and KZBlog reports on some reactions to the character.

The Roberts Report has photos from protests as does Flickr user teokaye. Registan.net has a summary of the last two days' news.

Adam Kesher reports that one of Kazakhstan's most popular opposition figures faces prison.

Alexander Sadikov reports that with Tajikistan's presidential election only three days away, the campaign is still very low key.

There is very little Kenyan Pundit misses about the US.

Leila reports that Kazakhstan's very small Czech community, which was repatriated in recent years.

The beatroot writes about a significant number of lethal car accidents that occurred in Poland on the day Polish families visit graves of their dead relatives.