Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 March 04

4 March 2007

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Stories from 4 March 2007

Forced evictions in Guatemala: whose land is it anyway?

Written by Gavin Simpson · North America, Latin America

Land ownership and occupation are complex and highly contentious issues in many parts of Latin America, and the tropical, resource-rich plains of northeastern Guatemala are no exception. On the one...

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Syrian Blogsphere: Free Kareem echoes, Expats living in Syria and Certifying your Documents

Written by Yazan Badran · Middle East & North Africa

Earlier this week, the Syrian Blogsphere responded collectively to the sentencing of Egyptian blogger Kareem Nabeel Sulaiman, with a joint statement, started on Levantine Dreamhouse… We, as a community of...

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Uganda: The Last King of Scotland, Cessation of Hostilities Agreement Expires, and It is a Sin to Buy a Yellow Humvee

Written by Joshua Goldstein · Sub-Saharan Africa

On Sunday Evening at the Kodak Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, an emotionally shaken Forrest Whitaker accepted an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The...

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Violence Returns to East Timor

Written by Preetam Rai · East Asia

Violence broke out yet again in East Timor as international security forces tried to capture rebel leader Alfredo Reinado. Reinado, the former leader of military police was implicated in the...

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Brazil: Rolling Stone and the Marketing Hackers

Written by Jose Murilo · Latin America

One of the more dynamic segments in the Brazilian blogosphere is that of the marketing blogs. Stirred by a local advertising industry that regularly tops the most prestigious creative awards,...

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Updates from 4 March 2007

Senegal

Ethan Zuckerman on elections in Senegal, “One of the stories I’ve not paid much attention to are the elections in Senegal, where incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade appears to have won re-election in the first round of elections. There’s been some minor strife around the elections - negligible in comparison to many African elections, but significant in Senegal which has a well-deserved reputation for stability and good governance.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Technology

Tobias writes about the article, Reporting Africa, blog by blog: I found it interesting that there was no mention of allafrica.com, which also provides a news portal used by many to follow events throughout Africa and hosts the BlogAfrica blog aggregator site which appears to have been the precursor to Global Voices. I’d be interested in hearing more about that history and how allafrica.com, which I have always found to be a most useful and valiantly offered service, fits into all of this.

• Ndesanjo Macha

In my opinion, the only slang from this list which is falling out of vogue is the nickname of Medvedev...
I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The other slang words are not...