Well, that could have been really good news. Yesterday, BBC ran a story celebrating the arrival of a ship at Mogadishu’s main port for the first time in several years, under the headline “Rare Ship Docks at Somalia Port”. By… Read More »14 hours from good news to bad news in Somalia
There are some points I’m happy to concede to Dr. Thomas Barnett – that disconnection from the global economy and media leads to danger, for instance. And then there are others where my strong temptation is to dig in my… Read More »Darfur: Where’s Europe?
I was driving home from the Albany train station last night at 2am, feeling grateful that our local NPR station becomes (for all practical purposes) the BBC from 1am – 5am, when I heard a great story about Ghana’s olympic… Read More »If the Jamaicans can bobsled, the Ghanaians can ski
Matt Yanchyshyn is a Canadian reporter for the Associated Press, living in Dakar, Senegal and, apparently, having the time of his life in a town renowned for its live music scene. (I get the sense that Matt generally has a… Read More »Great new African music blog
The Global Voices meeting was an amazing success – it’s hard to explain just how cool it was to meet blogging pioneers from all around the world. I’m exhausted and a little overwhelmed by all the work we have to… Read More »Global Voices
Jim Moore has an interesting commentary on the post I made a couple of days back about Ghana’s election. (Jon Lebowsky has picked up the conversation and is continuing it on WorldChanging.)I pointed to a piece on GhanaWeb about the… Read More »Ghana’s election, and hopes for Darfur?