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Matt from Gusts Of Popular Feeling blogs the details of the fire accident in Yeosu during the weekend, which killed 9 foreigners (8 were Chinese). He criticised the Ministry of Justice's excuse for the poor condition in the immigration center: Any massive increase in the number of foreigners in detainment centers due to immigration violations has always been due to the Justice Ministry's decision to periodically arrest large numbers of people, so such an excuse for poor detainment conditions is pathetic.
Blog Politique du Senegal posts (Fr) pictures of Goree including certain “endangered historical landmarks.”
Convention Pour Une Nouvelle Guadeloupe reacts (Fr) to French presidential candidates Segolene Royal and Nicola Sarkozy's presidential platforms. According to the blogger, neither candidate “really takes into account the real situation of Guadeloupe which by international law is a non autonomous territory whose identity [France] has not managed to suppress. We ask Guadeloupeans to be vigilent so as not to be manipulated by an election detached from their preoccupations. “
Jean-Claude Halley of Guadeloupe Attitude writes (Fr): “Ardent defendor of human rights and engaged abolitionist, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges was the first composer of African ancestry of classical music to the court of Louis XVth in France and a reputed invincible fencer. At the end of 2006, for Mozart's bicentennial and [Leopold Sédar] Senghor's centennial, Senegal celebrated Saint-Georges … with concerts on the island of Gorée and in the cathedral of Dakar.”
A local Martiniquan gay rights site claims that Raymond Occolier, a local official known for past homophobic statements, has announced that he will hold a local referendum if a same-sex marriage law passes in mainland France. Le Blog de [Moi] (Fr) responds, after protracted analysis of relevant laws, that “none of the cited local entities… is [legally] competent to organize such a referendum.”
Le Blog de [Moi] writes (Fr): “If being a witch is being a woman who is able to say ‘no' but also to say ‘yes' sometimes … than yes I am a witch. And I spend my life running into nothing but witches because this definition perfectly fits the majority of my girlfriends. And I encourage all women to become witches too. Because what I call witch is a woman in total control of herself.”
Miami-based Jamaican writer Geoffrey Philp regrets he didn't have the chance to spend more time at the We Media Miami conference, but is pleased that he still had the opportunity to meet several of the attendees, including a few Global Voices members like Alice Backer, who analyses one of the early sessions at her personal blog.
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