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8 August 2008

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Stories from 8 August 2008

Angola: Countdown to the long awaited elections

Written by Clara Onofre · Sub-Saharan Africa

Angola's first parliamentary elections in 16 years will finally take place at the beginning of September. Clara Onofre reports on the local atmosphere during the countdown to the polls, direct from Luanda.

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Lebanon: An Italian Lesson for Lebanon

Written by Nash Suleiman · Middle East & North Africa

What are the similarities between Lebanon and Italy, other than the fact that they both overlook the Mediterranean? Blogger Antoun Issa, in his latest post at Lebanese Chess argues that...

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MENA: Obama's Muslim Outreach Coordinator Resigns

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa, North America

Mazen Asbahi, the attorney who had volunteered as Barack Obama's outreach coordinator to Muslim and Arab-Americans, has resigned after accusations of ties to Jamal Said, an imam at a fundamentalist mosque in Illinois. Asbahi briefly sat on the board of Allied Assets Advisors Fund with Said in 2000. Bloggers from the Middle East react in this post from Jillian York.

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AIDS 2008: Battling AIDS By Battling Homophobia

Written by Juhie Bhatia · Latin America

As the XVII International AIDS Conference wraps up in Mexico City, one of the many issues participants have been discussing is the international failure to adequately address HIV/AIDS among men...

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Georgia: South Ossetia Update

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Eastern & Central Europe, Central Asia & Caucasus

With local and international media outlets reporting that fighting is spilling over into Georgia proper, the latest military confrontation with Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia looks increasingly like war. Bloggers from the region say signs are ominous.

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Georgia: War in South Ossetia

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Eastern & Central Europe, Central Asia & Caucasus

Following clashes and allegations of the shelling of Georgian villages by separatists in the breakaway territory of South Ossetia, there are fears that war will once again rage in the volatile South Caucasus. With the media reporting that Georgian troops have surrounded the capital, Tskhinvali, all eyes are on how Russia reacts to the latest developments.

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Updates from 8 August 2008

Ukraine

The Gaws reported some really scary statistics on what happens to “post-institutional orphans” in Ukraine.

• Vilhelm Konnander

Russia

Suomalais-venäläinen kansalaisfoorumi [Russian] reposted an appeal to stop the war in South-Ossetia by the Russian human rights' organisation Memorial, reminding us of what tragedies wars in the Caucasus have brought.

• Vilhelm Konnander

Croatia

Gray Falcon compares the current situation of South Ossetians in Georgia with that of Serbs in Croatia in 1995.

• Elia Varela Serra

Georgia

Colleen of the blog winthrop360 notes that a few .ge websites appear to be down, including the President of Georgia and the Parliament of Georgia.

• Elia Varela Serra

Ukraine

The 8th Circle discusses some questions surrounding the issue of a future NATO-membership for Ukraine.

• Vilhelm Konnander

Estonia

cyrsfarivar.com compares the hustle of getting a speeding ticket in the US and Estonia, with the latter coming out on the positive side.

• Vilhelm Konnander

Russia

In reference to the war in South Ossetia starting on the opening day of the Beijing Olympics, Ruslanas Iržikevičius of Lituanica notes that several catastrophes in Russia started while important events were happening in other parts of the world, and that quite a few of those happened in the month of August.

• Elia Varela Serra