Global Voices · Citizen media stories from February 2011

February, 2011

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Stories from February, 2011

12 February 2011

Senegal: World Social Forum 2011: One Week of Activism in Dakar

Written by George Esunge Fominyen · Sub-Saharan Africa

Dakar, the capital of the West African nation of Senegal, has been bustling with activists and campaigners from across the globe, gathered under the banner of the World Social Forum to say another world is possible.

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Egypt: The Moment of Triumph

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Middle East & North Africa

Citizen recorded videos have started cropping up showing the historical moment when Mubarak resigned to the Presidency of Egypt and how the people at Tahir Square reacted to the news.

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11 February 2011

Saudi Arabia: Cheers for Our Egyptian Brothers!

Written by Haifa Alrasheed · Middle East & North Africa

In their reaction to the news that Hosni Mubarak stepped down, Saudis joyfully congratulated Egyptians on their victory, especially those in Tahrir Square.

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Tunisia: Slim Amamou Speaks About Tunisia, Egypt and the Arab World

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Middle East & North Africa

Slim Amamou, a 33-year-old Tunisian blogger, programmer and activist, made the headlines back in January 18th, 2011, when he was appointed Minister for the Youth and Sports in the interim government of his country, following the toppling of the dictatorship of former autocrat, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. In this interview to Global Voices Slim comments on recent events in Tunisia and the Arab world.

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Yemen: Protests Continue Away from International Media Eyes

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

With the entire world watching Egypt as it celebrates the uprooting of its dictator, Yemenis are calling for help and the world's media attention, as they take to the streets to call for an end of Ali Abdullah Saleh's regime.

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Colombia: If Mubarak were Colombian

Written by Julián Ortega Martínez · Middle East & North Africa, Latin America

Around the time Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was scheduled to deliver his disappointing speech on February 10, 2011, the hashtag #siMubarakfueracolombiano ("If Mubarak were Colombian") started trending on the local twittosphere.

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Updates from February, 2011

17 February 2011

Ukraine

GV Author Tetyana Bohdanova has launched an English-language blog “on Ukraine, politics, and everything in between” - Good Girl Gone Ukrainian.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Serbia

Belgraded.com writes about the most recent awkward situation that the costly website of Serbia's Ministry of Ecology and Urban Planning has found itself in: “The site was the target of public ridicule once again couple of hours ago when someone noticed that the username/password combination for logging on to the site’s admin panel was – are you ready for this – admin/12345. […] Couple of minutes after this piece of topsecret info was posted to twitter, the site had around two hundred admins […].”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Serbia

Bill's Blog writes about Semlin Judenlager, a Nazi concentration camp in Belgrade.

• Veronica Khokhlova

16 February 2011

Russia

Alexander Belenkiy (LJ user macos) posts photos (RUS) taken in the neglected - but not yet fully deserted - coal miners' towns in Perm region, where the first mine appeared in 1797 and the last one closed in 2000: “All this resembles today's Abkhazia or wartime Grozny.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Mikhail Shlyapnikov (LJ user michael-077) writes in detail (RUS) about plans to set up a communal village hospital - old-style, but functional - in Kolionovo, Moscow region: “This, perhaps, is a rare case in contemporary history of rural Russia when, contrary to the general tendency, a village hospital is not shutting down, but is being recreated in a new form. And what's important is this is a free hospital for everyone.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Bhutan

Tshering Tobgay calls all the concerned Bhutanese citizens to lead a movement to amend the draconian Tobacco Control Act, which can penalize 23 year old Sonam Tshering, a jail-term for minimum 3 years for smuggling Rs. 96 (approx US$2) worth of chewing tobacco.

• Rezwan

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