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Lova Rakotomalala

Contributor profile · 151 posts · joined 22 February 2007

Currently the editor of the Francophone region for Global Voices, I am a researcher in biomedical engineering for low-cost mobile diagnostic tools in resource limited settings. Raised in Madagascar, I have a strong interest in international development and digital media as a tool to promote social change and transparency in the developing world. I am currently attending the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs and Public Policy at Princeton U to further that specific interest. I am also part of the core team of the Foko , an NGO driven to promote the online exposure of social grassroots projects based in Madagascar. I can also be found at twitter.com/lrakoto and on my personal blog.

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28 August 2010

Togo

Reporters sans frontières deplores that two weeks after being harassed and threatened by a French Lieutenant-Colonel Romuald Letondot, journalist Didier Ledoux of Liberté Hebdo was brutalized again [fr], by Togolese officers this time because he allegedly took photos of one of them. Liberté Hebdo was also fined 90,000 Euros [fr] because it published report suggesting that the president brother-in-law was involved in drug trafficking.

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Madagascar

Tomavana posts on twitter [fr] a report that Radio Soatalily in the town of Toliary (South East of Madagascar) was sacked by 30 members [fr] of the opposition after their meeting was dismantled by police forces. The government also launched “Operation Strike” to curb down banditry and increasing criminality [fr] on the island.

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26 August 2010

Algeria: Bloggers Denounce the Exclusion of Egypt from the Algiers Book Fair

By Mohamed Benderouiche · Translated by Lova Rakotomalala · Middle East & North Africa

Following the tensions from a football match in Cairo between the Egyptian and Algerian football teams, Algiers Book Fair (SILA) decided to exclude Egyptian books from the event. The decision did not sit well with many Algerian bloggers. read »

24 August 2010

Tunisia: Doctored Photographs Symptomatic of the State of The National Press

By Lova Rakotomalala · Middle East & North Africa

The use of national media as an instrument of propaganda has been fairly well documented in Tunisia. The latest evidence of media manipulation was identified by Tunisian bloggers on August 20 when newspapers le Temps and Assabah illustrated on the sending of food supply by fundation Zitouna to the victims of the floods in Pakistan. 3

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23 August 2010

Global: The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

By Abdoulaye Bah · Translated by Lova Rakotomalala · Sub-Saharan Africa, Americas

August 23rd is The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. A series of events are organized around the world by various organisations to help inscribe the tragic memory of the slave trade promote human rights. read »

22 August 2010

France: Discrimination Against Roma People, Labeled as “Thieves”

By Suzanne Lehn · Translated by Lova Rakotomalala · Eastern & Central Europe, Western Europe

While the expulsions of Roma people are in full throttle with the silent approbation of the majority of the public opinion, some doubts start to creep in about the fairness of the measures. Some bloggers express their outrage at the measures that target the most vulnerable and the libel of an entire community as "thieves". read »