Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2010 April 05

5 April 2010

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Stories from 5 April 2010

Arab World: iPad Fever Grips Arabia

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Quick to purchase the latest gadgets and show them off, some bloggers and Twitter users from the Arab world are doing the iPad justice. Here's what a Saudi student and a Kuwait resident have to say about Apple's new toy.

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Nigeria: Leading Nigerian leftist gone

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Citizen Media

“Abubakar Rimi, arguably, northern Nigeria most visible politician of the leftist persuation died yesterday of “cardiac arrest” after witnessing an armed robbery episode. Rimi has been diabetic,” reports Chidi Opara.

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Russia: Reflections on the Subway Bombings and Politics

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

It's been a week since the March 29 Moscow subway bombings, which killed 40 people and left over 100 injured. Below is a sampling from an ongoing discussion by Russophone bloggers.

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Updates from 5 April 2010

Iraq

“In 1991, the Arabs were terrified of Western supremacy in technology (smart bombs for example that CNN kept showing their devastating effects in collateral damages on civilians)… In 2003, Arab/Moslem masses had Al Jazeera channel to cover the war among 32 other satellite channels…This information victory scared the Western civilization…” writes Adonis49 about the evolution in the diffusion and dissemination of information in the Arab world.

• Moussa Bashir

Saudi Arabia

Saudi blogger Fuad Al Farhan sends out a tweet (Ar) saying that someone tried to hack into his blog and WordPress sent him an alert for resetting his password.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Saudi Arabia

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice rules Saudi Arabia with an iron fist. Crossroads Arabia reports what could signal trouble to the commission - better known as the religious police.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Saudi Arabia

Passionate about writing? From Saudi Arabia, Hariohari shares those thoughts.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Bahrain

Around 5,000 people from Bahrain have joined a Facebook group entitled: You don't deserve to live in a country you don't protect (Ar).

• Amira Al Hussaini

Jordan

Jordanian blog 7iber sums up events happening in Amman in the week from April 4 to 10. “This is one of those weeks where the culture vultures among us will have some very difficult choices to make, because there are so many interesting events taking place every single day,” says the blog.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Jordan

Jordanian blogger Osama Al Romoh (Ar) has created a Facebook page for Jordanian blogs here.

• Amira Al Hussaini

D.R. of Congo

Jason discusses five misconceptions about the conflict in the D.R. of Congo: “1. The conflict in the DRC is all about minerals. Not quite. The war began in 1996, with three main causes: the collapse of the Zairian state after 32 years of misrule; the spillover from the Rwandan genocide with a million refugees…”

• Ndesanjo Macha