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Kenyan blogger Jerry Okungo, writing at Siasa Duni, comments on “the realisation that Tanzanians may not be as good masters of Kiswahili as the rest of East Africa may think” and on last week's decision by the Tanzanian Parliament “that the country had abandoned Ujamaism—the country’s version of socialism”. And he wonders: “Will the end of Ujamaism usher in unbridled greed and high level corruption that has permeated the Kenyan society?”
“I think fruit is the ONLY reason I tolerate summer at all here,” writes Khadija Teri, from Libya.
“I was disappointed to read that a committee from MOJ [Ministry of Justice] is working on the US$ 1.86 plan the King ordered to overhaul the judicial system in the country. How can the very same people who created, or inherited, the current system, and didn’t see anything wrong with it until the King spoke, be responsible to implement the kind of radical changes proposed in the plan when they seemed for a very long time rather comfortable with the status quo?” writes Saudi Jeans, from Saudi Arabia.
“Syria and Lebanon are to open embassies in each other's capitals for the first time ever,” reports Sasa from Syria.
“According to the egyptian government, Egypt now has more than 160,000 blogs,” reports Sandmonkey from Egypt.
Rebellious Arab Girl has finally launched her Arabic Social Networking site here.
Metroblogging Istanbul reports on a Turkish researcher who believes that by observing ant behavior that earthquakes can be predicted up to 24-hours in advance.
Achelois writes a poignant post on young South Asian women who marry men in the Gulf and end up losing their identity.
groundviews has a strong take on the Sri Lankan government's decision to host the SAARC summit, highlighting that SAARC hardly benefits the country and the money is better used elsewhere.
Free Media Sri Lanka urges the government to live up to its recent commitment to investigate acts of violence directed toward members of Sri Lanka’s media community.
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Miran, I love this post. I live in Qatar and to be honest, all you ever see is girls ignoring...