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Good piece by Becky Hogge on the Global Voices/Reuters Africa parternship
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As many as 15,000 people have fled Mogadishu since the fall of the UIC…
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Why are Nigerians so pro-American? Christian/Islam tension – 89% of Nigerian Christians have a positive view of the US. And the influence of American media, especially movies…
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SW Radio Africa is using SMS to broadcast news headlines to subscribers in Zimbabwe, where the station is banned and blocked. Let’s see how long this lasts… :-)
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Excellent op-ed by Ahmed al-Omran of Saudi Jeans about the significance of blogging and web2.0 in the middle east
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Craig Barrett talks about Intel’s plans for the developing world – with very few details – and takes on OLPC for its constructivist assumptions about education
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“Bamako” sounds like an extraordinary film – very much looking forward to seeing it. This reviewer found it a little strident, but powerful – the stridency seems inevitable in a film that puts the World Bank on trial in Mali