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6 November 2008

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Stories from 6 November 2008

Green Obama Dreams: Environment Bloggers Weigh in on The Historic Day

Written by Juliana Rotich · Sub-Saharan Africa, North America

Tim Hurst of Ecopoliticology blog posts an entertaining video titled ‘5 Green Obama Dreams'. The video mentions his posts on high resolution energy resource maps and the solar powered lawnmower....

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Al Ghad Party - Another fire in Egypt

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

Al Ghad, Ayman Nour's Party headquarters burnt down one day before their general assembly. According to blog reports, thugs burnt down the building and hampered firemen's efforts to put the fire out. In addition to losing their headquarters, the political party also lost 20 of its members - who were rounded up and arrested instead of the thugs.

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Egypt: Ghad Party Headquarters Burnt Down

Written by Eman AbdElRahman · Middle East & North Africa

Despite the recent spate of fires encountered in Egypt, today brings a different story of yet another fire - one started in the political Al Ghad Party's headquarters, in Cairo. Lasto Adri brings us the reactions of shocked bloggers.

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Egypt: Sexual Harassment Victim Stabbed to Death

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

I received an invitation to join a group named “Dr. Shaimaa Fouad … May you rest in Peace.” I did not know her and I wondered why anyone would invite me to such a group. Little did I know! Dr. Shaimaa Fouad died defending herself, writes Marwa Rakha, who tells us who the victim is.

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Guatemala: The Kaibiles as Peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Written by Renata Avila · Latin America

The Kabiles are soldiers that are part of the Guatemalan Army that has a poor track record of human rights abuses. Now, they are members of a UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Many are wondering whether their controversial and aggressive training methods, and their reputation as a "killing machine" coincides with the task of peacekeeping in this African nation.

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The Middle East's Generation Facebook

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

What will the Middle East look like 25 years from now? That was the assignment the World Policy Journal gave Mona El Tahawy for their 25th anniversary edition. Mona decided to have some fun and imagine. This is what she came up with, mixing real people in imaginary scenarios in 2033. Who knows? They might come true!

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Updates from 6 November 2008

Kenya

Richard Leakey blogs about his concern regarding ivory auctions in South Africa. “…I believe that auctioning the ivory stockpiles would cause poaching to increase particularly in the central, eastern and western African elephant range states where poaching is not yet properly controlled.”

• Juliana Rotich

Madagascar

Dotmg announces that the free Malagasy spell checker he has been developing is now operational. The software, which is, as far as I know the first of its kind, is:”opensource, and is released under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (or above). It is part of a larger project called tsipelina, and the project is available on tsipelina.sourceforge.net. It requires PHP and a webserver, as it is written in PHP.”

• Lova Rakotomalala