Latest posts by Jennifer Brea from November, 2008
Senegal: Billionaire hopes auto rickshaws can create thousands of jobs
A plan to create 60,000 new jobs by importing tens of thousands of auto rickshaws to Senegal has sparked an impassioned online debate.
France Antilles news website launched
le blog de [moi] writes about the launch of a new, daily news website for the French Antilles[fr], featuring the latest from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyane: “What joy! Yes, pure and simple joy, because it was really ridiculous not to use [the internet] at a time when everything is going...
Burkina Faso: Fertility and Underdevelopment
According to new official statistics, Burkina Faso's population is growing [Fr] at an annual rate of 3.1%. Quophybloguer writes [Fr]: “Will the government have the courage to officially limit births in this country, where wrongly or rightly it is believed that children are also a ‘wealth'?”
DRC: Didace Namujimbo Radio Okapi Journalist Murdered
Cedric Kalonji writes about the tragic shooting death of Didace Namujimbo [Fr], the second Radio Okapi journalist to be murdered in Bukavu: “After learning this news, I was torn between pain, sadness and anger. I asked myself how a democracy can last in a country so visibly allergic to independent, professional journalists....
Cameroon: Questioning the Bakassi Freedom Fighters hostage exchange
A week after the 10 hostages (including 8 foreign nationals) kidnapped by the Bakassi Freedom Fighters were exchanged for the release of 13 prisoners, Cameroonian blogger Le blog du Prési wonders what a hostage is worth. “I don't mean ‘what does a hostage cost?'”, he writes. “Even though these would be...
Uganda: Locust season brings crispy treats
November is nsenene season around Lake Victoria and the locusts are scrumptious!
Doubts about Zambia's presidential elections
percymwale raises doubts about the freeness and fairness of Zambia's recent presidential elections.
Africa: Making future presidents?
Stood in the Congo: “Now Obama has won, many American women will come here to try and make the next President.”
Google software and mapping the ‘dark continent’
Tropically Tolerant writes about the potential of new Google software, which allows local people to draw GIS data on top of satellite imagery, to help map regions of the world, like Africa, where GIS data may be scant or nonexistent.
Lagos may soon be home to world's largest cyber cafe
David Ajao writes about Chams, a Nigerian IT company, and its ambitious plan to build the world's largest cyber cafe in Lagos, Nigeria. ChamsCity will boast 1,000 computers under one roof, a feat that, if accomplished, would break the current world record.
Obamamaniacs in Cote d'Ivoire Anxiously Await Election Results
Read Le Blog de Yoro [Fr], and you'll get the sense that the American presidential election has completely taken over Abidjan, the capital city of Cote d'Ivoire. Not to mention Yoro's blog, which in recent days has sported a new title (Elections Americaines 2008, Vues d'Abidjan), a new banner (Obama,...
Martinique: California's Proposition 8 ‘a violation of civil rights. Period.’
From Martinique, le blog de [moi] discusses Proposition 8[Fr], a proposed amendment to the California constitution that would prohibit same-sex marriage and is expected to pass in a referendum on Tuesday. She writes that denying gays and lesbians the right to marry is a “violation of civil rights. Period,” and points...
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