Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2009 December 04

4 December 2009

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Stories from 4 December 2009

Guinea: Attempt on Military Leader Dadis Camara's Life

Written by Abdoulaye Bah · Sub-Saharan Africa

According to several news sources, Captain Dadis Camara, leader of the military junta which seized power in Guinea in December 2008, was shot and wounded by one of his aides yesterday in Conakry. Many RFI readers, holding Camara responsible for the September 28th massacre of opposition protesters, call it justice.

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Guatemala: Breaking Down the Doors of Brothels

Written by Eduardo Avila · Latin America

The blog Noticias para Dios offers an inside look, both raw and literary, on the everyday life of a Guatemalan lawyer rescuing trafficked children from brothels.

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Congo: Doctors without Borders tell people's stories through web video

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Sub-Saharan Africa

Condition Critical is a website showcasing the stories of victims of the violence in Eastern Congo coordinated and launched by Doctors without Borders/Medecins sans Frontiers (MSF). With slideshows and first person accounts, they give a face to the conflict.

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Portuguese-speaking bloggers on World Aids Day ‘09

Written by Diego Casaes · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

This World Aids Day Lusophone bloggers in different parts of the world reflect on the suffering caused by the human immunodeficiency virus.

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Russia: Blogger Arrested For Pneumonic Plague Rumors

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Eastern & Central Europe

Ivan Peregorodiev, a 22-year-old medical student and blogger, has been arrested on December 3 for spreading rumors about pneumonic plague in the city of Saratov. Authorities accused him of disseminating false information related to an act of terrorism.

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Slovakia: Controversial Politician Opposes Construction of a Casino

Written by Tibor Blazko · Eastern & Central Europe, Western Europe

TriGranit, one of Europe's largest property developers, in cooperation with Harrah's Entertainment, the world's largest gaming company, are to build a leisure and shopping complex with a casino in Slovakia. Tibor Blazko translates some of what Slovak netizens have to say about one of the critics of this construction project.

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Updates from 4 December 2009

Peru

Jacqueline shares on her blog two encounters in Lima [es] with the same taxi driver: on the first one she cried after hearing about the driver's son accident; on the second one, she realized he was a scammer.

• Issa Villarreal

Nepal

Ujjwal Acharya at The Radiant Star informs that to propagate about climate change issues the Nepal government has held a cabinet meeting at 18,192 ft above sea level in the Mount Everest.

• Rezwan

Pakistan

“Light Within” informs that today a terrorist attack on a mosque located in Rawalpindi, Pakistan took lives of a number of people.

• Rezwan

Sri Lanka

Ajit Rupasinghe at Groundviews discusses about the up-coming Presidential election in Sri Lanka and the aspirations of the citizens.

• Rezwan

India

Lekhni at The Imagined Universe remembers 25 years of Bhopal gas tragedy in India and discusses what lesson it teaches us.

• Rezwan

Trinidad & Tobago

“Hopefully after viewing this you will be inspired to plant your own organic garden (i.e. if you don't have one already)”: Now Is Wow Too posts a video she recorded of an initiative by the students of a Trinidadian primary school.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Haiti

The Haitian Blogger highlights reactions to what is being called “rigged” elections carded for February 2010.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Guyana

Repeating Islands reports that Guyana's efforts in climate change reform have been praised by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

Trinidad Carnival Diary says: “I think the breathalyser is a long time coming…though it will certainly take some adjusting to in a culture where there is a rum shop on practically every corner.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Barbados

B.C. Pires thinks that Roebuck and Berry, two well respected names in the cricket fraternity, are “simply wrong…in their contention that the West Indies national cricket team should be allowed…to splinter into its constituent island teams and have the smaller, purportedly more strongly motivated teams seek Test-playing status on their own.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco