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November, 2011

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Stories from November, 2011

11 November 2011

Lebanon: Jeita Grotto… To Vote or Not to Vote

Written by Layal Al Khatib · Middle East & North Africa

Will the Jeita Grotto in Lebanon be named as one of the New7Wonders of Nature today? Layal Al Khatib sums up the discussion between Lebanese netizens in favour and against the voting contest.

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Gabon: Bongo Indulges With Football Match Against Brazil

Written by Julie Owono · Sub-Saharan Africa

The Brazilian national football team came to Libreville, Gabon for a friendlly football match against the Gabonese national team on November 10. The social challenges the team witnessed are in stark contrast with the spending habits of the current Gabonese President Ali Bongo.

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Zambia: Using Social Media to Mobilize Mobile Phone Service Boycott

Written by Gershom Ndhlovu · Sub-Saharan Africa

Whether or not the campaign by mobile phone subscribers in Zambia to boycott Airtel services on Wednesday, November 9 succeeded, a new era of expressing dissatisfaction with poor service delivery has arrived.

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Colombia: Students Gather in Bogotá's Bolívar Square

Written by Cati Restrepo · Translated by Marianna Breytman · Latin America

On November 10, public university students participated in marches throughout the country and gathered in Bolivar Square in Bogota, the principal administrative center of the country. The event aimed to pressure the government to definitively repeal Law 30 for higher education reform.

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Slovakia: Checking Politicians' Facts With Demagog.sk

Written by Jakub Górnicki · Eastern & Central Europe

Demagog.sk is a Slovakian web project that aims to analyze politicians' claims based on facts and ensure they are correct and used in the right context.

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Brazil: Is State-Funded Evangelical ‘Gospel Park' Unconstitutional?

Written by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia · Translated by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia · Latin America

The announcement of the construction of the first ever Brazilian 'Gospel Park' in the state of Acre, caused controversy this October. Public funds will be used for the park that would only benefit members of the Pentecostal evangelical religion, something forbidden by the Federal Constitution.

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Updates from November, 2011

21 November 2011

Chile

Domestic workers protested demanding dignity at work on Sunday, November 20, in Santiago. The blog Centros Chilenos en el Exterior [es] posted a video of the march produced by Prensa Opal [es].

• Silvia Viñas

El Salvador

Puerto Rican music duo Calle 13 performed in El Salvador on Saturday, November 19; the ticket fee, as Voices from El Salvador reports, “was a donation of rice, beans or other grains that will be distributed to flood victims.” Hunnapuh [es] blogged about Calle 13 and the controversy around their concert in El Salvador.

• Silvia Viñas

Peru

Rains have once again caused flooding in the city of Iquitos in the Amazon Rainforest. The blogger behind De la Selva [es] attributes the flooding to sewage works and posts Facebook pictures of the flood.

• Silvia Viñas

Madagascar

For the past week, Antananarivo, the capital city of Madagascar, has experienced scheduled daily power outages [fr] that lasted on average 2h and 30 minutes in the evening and it seems that it could get worse [fr]. Several bloggers have expressed [fr] increased frustration [mg] with the ongoing situation that was also reflected on many twitter updates.

• Lova Rakotomalala

Nigeria

In the village of Yelwa — North of Nigeria — a new style of construction intrigued the curiosity of the locals. Noorinfo publishes photos of rounded huts [fr] built with plastic bottles. These new constructions look like a potential alternative to the old-fashioned bricks.

• Boukary Konaté

Tanzania

Mbwana Ally explains how not to lauch a Data.gov: “Checking my twitter stream I saw that the Tanzania Government had launched a Open Data website initiative (Kiswahili)…The complaints on twitter started mounting and I gladly participated. Where is the data? The SMS no. set up does not work. The site was loading slow or not at all for a lot of people.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Benin

Open Doors 2012 focuses on Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa: “Following on from India in 2011, the next edition of Open Doors, the Festival del film Locarno’s co-production lab, will be devoted to francophone Africa…Application forms for Open Doors 2012 are available on www.onopendoors.pardo.ch and are restricted to projects from francophone Sub-saharan Africa”

• Ndesanjo Macha

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