Africa (older)

As most folks have already heard, a tsunami caused by an 8.9-richter earthquake has killed at least 20,000 people, many in Sri Lanka, but throughout… Read More »The Tsunami in South Asia

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… 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… 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)… 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… 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… Read More »Global Voices