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OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Slowly I have seen the emergence of Caribbean musical tributes to Barack Obama, something one ordinarily does not see happening with US presidential candidates, most of whom I would argue inspire indifference, resignation, or plain hostility in the English-speaking Caribbean which, without a language barrier, and with significant family connections, and blanketed by US media, [...]
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Arianna Huffington The Huffington Post John McCain unveiled his new campaign strategy today: invite the American people to take a magic carpet ride with him to the land of Eternal Sunshine. In a speech this morning in Ohio -- backed up by a companion TV ad -- McCain hopped into an imaginary time machine and took us all to the year 2013, offering a sneak peek of what the world will look like at the...
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Pure Pedantry (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Zimbabwe is in the midst of skyrocketing inflation (check out this chart in the Economist ), so this story -- while amusing -- is not entirely unexpected : I had lunch in Mutare yesterday, a town in Zimbabwe on the Mozambique border. To give you a benchmark -- bread is currently over 110 million a loaf; on 22nd April it was 40 million per loaf. The lunch bill: soup -- 50 million, oxtail -- 600 million,...
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Get Mash (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
AP - Assassination threats have derailed plans by Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to return home to campaign for the presidential runoff vote, a party official said Saturday. Read the full story
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WhackyNation (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
When will we learn? It has just been disclosed that fake malaria drugs that created havoc in Southeast Asia because they failed to check the disease have now had the same deadly effect in many African nations, including Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Kenya. The disclosure was made by an organization called Africa Fighting Malaria, [...]
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Down With Everybody (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Dallaire has become a poster boy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This has resulted in modest wealth and status — promotions and medals before he retired, a UN post as adviser, a Liberal senator, and a sought-after speaker and authority on human rights in Darfur, China and elsewhere. By morally equating the U.S. and Canada’s treatment [...]
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Bosses blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Nullius in Verba Em minha humilde opinião .... I think that the situation of media in Mozambique is positive and quite encouraging. One aspect of the big "RIghts" issue where Mozambique is making head-way. I know a lot of journalists talk about "self-censoring" etc, but taken as a whole and with due consideration of the history of the Mozambique, I feel the situation is improving. A lot is due to bloggers,...
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The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
WALKING past Harare's busy Roadport cross-border bus terminus, one cannot miss the fact that a huge number of people are leaving Zimbabwe for neighbouring countries, particularly South Africa. Full article ... (http://allafrica.com/stories/200805161054.html)
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Somali pirates hijacked a Jordanian ship Saturday in the latest in a string of attacks off the lawless coast of Somalia, the head of a seafarer's association said.
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Say Anything (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Boy, I’m glad that they don't need to focus on Zimbabwe, where white farmers are being forced off ther farms and the farms are being turned over to the cronies of the local political machine. Or on Saudi Arabia or any number of other Muslim nations where just being a Christian is a crime. Or Darfur, where the slaughter of black Africans by Muslim militias continues without interruption. The list goes...
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Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
It would certainly be more appropriate and historically accurate of the OIC commemorated the deaths suffered at the hands of Muslims .............. no mention of Darfur (where hundreds of thousands of "moderate Muslims have been murdered by Islamic jihad. But lets talk straight, it's all about the Jews. These pathetic losers will never stop. It's all they do. Get your teeth out of our neck. OIC to...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Somali pirates hijacked a Jordanian ship Saturday in the latest in a string of attacks off the lawless coast of Somalia, the head of a seafarer's association said.
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader has canceled his return to Harare from South Africa after receiving information from a “credible source” about what his party said was a planned assassination. Share This
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zipdadoda | 04/19/2008
While the UN continues to slap itself on the back for it's stupendous job well done, occasionally the realities do get told. You Tube has removed the video but in this viral environment, we are trying to track it down.
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abdulruff | 04/02/2008
Poll in Zimbabwe : What is cooking? Zimbabwe , a state in Southern Africa , went to poll on March 29. Zimbabweans cast ballots for president, parliament and local councils. Preliminary official results were expected...
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gumir | 03/19/2008
UAE . Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier (LCC) in the Middle East and North Africa, today opened its first fully-dedicated sales shop in the city of Almaty , Kazakhstan. The Sharjah-based carrier, which has provided direct flights to Kazakhstan since 2005, currently offers fours flights per week to Kazakhstan, including two flights per week to Astana and Almaty. Air Arabia’s new Almaty...
