Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2010 September 03

3 September 2010

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Stories from 3 September 2010

South Africa: Proposed Protection of Information Bill – Apartheid Era Politics?

Written by Prisha Bhoola · Sub-Saharan Africa

South Africa has been regarded as having one of the most free press in the world. Now, these much lauded freedoms are once again being threatened. The South African parliament is currently debating a “Protection of Information” Bill. This bill proposes to impose restrictions on access to government information and violators of the law would be punished with up to 25 years in prison.

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Colombia: Children's Literature Author Jairo Aníbal Niño Dies

Written by Cati Restrepo · Translated by Silvia Viñas · Latin America

Jairo Aníbal Niño, one of the most-loved authors of children's literature in Colombia, passed away last Monday. Twitter users and bloggers remembered the author and his work.

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Does Egypt love Egyptians?

Written by Eman AbdElRahman · Middle East & North Africa

As the gap between dreams and reality widens, young Egyptians are asking themselves if they still love their country and whether their country loves them in return. Eman AbdElRahman zooms into blogs for an answer.

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Has Rupert Murdoch declared war on Fiji?

Written by Michael Hartsell · Oceania

Fiji's military leaders are pushing for the sale of the country's oldest newspaper, the Fiji Times, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Limited. Has the media mogul retaliated by declaring a war of words on the country?

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Updates from 3 September 2010

Iran

Pro regime forces attacked Ghoba mosque in Shiraz while a pro reformist religious leader delivered a speech and prayed. Here are the photos in Behdabra blog.

• Fred Petrossian

U.S.A.

American Muslim groups are using online video in a collaborative project to try and explain what Islam is about in an attempt to defuse the rise of anti Islam racism and fear spurned by a community center to be built near Ground Zero in New York City. Via.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

Mozambique

Citizens reported violent demonstrations in Chimboio, in the centre of Mozambique, on the third day of the unrest. Blogger Carlos Serra questions what journalists mean when they say that the situation in now “calm”, after six people having been shot. [all links in pt]

• Sara Moreira

Ghana

Welcome to kube-ology 101: “Kube-ology is the study of kube (coconut) and kube-ology 101 is a series of kube lessons…In this course, I will bring you mini-lessons that I learn about kube in my bid to become a kube-meister…”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Zimbabwe

Art threatens Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe: “The artist, Owen Maseko, is currently challenging Mugabe’s ban on his exhibition depicting Gukurahundi, the 1980s Matabeleland massacres.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Ghana

MightyAfrican announces TEDxAccra: “Before BarCamp Accra happens on October 2, you should attend TEDxAccra as well. It is one of the TEDxChange events which are happening all over the world on September 20, 2001.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Zambia

This is how Africans are doing business with cell phones: “In cities across Africa, being an entrepreneur requires no office, business card or investors. All it takes is a cell phone…”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Chile

On Thursday it was announced that, after much criticism, Isabel Allende was the winner of the 2010 Chilean National Prize for Literature. Julio Suarez Anturi thinks [es] that the criticism she receives from other writers and intellectuals who think she did not deserve the price is born of envy.

• Silvia Viñas

Mexico

Tienes un Recado [es] discusses the controversy over a cartoon by David Cagle, which shows the Mexican flag with a gunned-down eagle. The blogger asks her readers if they feel offended by the cartoon.

• Silvia Viñas