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January 24th, 2008

Environment: Global roundup of Enviroblogs.

Juliana Rotich · 01:19

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Environmental blogs around the world are addressing a myriad issues specific to their region, but of global concern. In DRC the Gorilla Protection blog is pondering what a peace deal would mean for Gorillas. From China Dialogue, a look at what is next after the Bali climate change conference, and from South Africa, we have reactions to the recent power shortages and an eco-car competition. 2 comments · »»

October 12th, 2007

Enviroment Blogs This Week

Juliana Rotich · 03:58

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Solar powered street lights in Capetown, architecture with a modern and green touch in Accra Ghana, questions about companies' so called 'green' credentials, and a cute baby gorilla in Africa. All this, in today's installment of environment blogs on Global Voices. We begin in South Africa with news of solar powered ... 4 comments · »»

September 24th, 2007

World Reaction to the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights

Jennifer Brea · 07:57

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In every society in which they find themselves, the world's 370 million indigenous peoples are among the most vulnerable and marginalized. After over 22 years of negotiations and consultations, the United Nations approved the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples earlier this month, a broad, non-binding agreement articulating basic individual ... 4 comments · »»

July 10th, 2007

France suffers African dictators: Denis Sassou-Nguesso warmly welcomed by Sarkozy

Jennifer Brea · 09:51

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France is famous for getting cozy with the dictators who govern their former colonies, a tradition called Françafrique that newly-elected French president Nicolas Sarkozy appears keen to continue. In March, he received Omar Bongo, President of Gabon since 1967. And last week he played host to Denis Sassou-Nguesso, ... 5 comments · »»

June 15th, 2007

Congo-Brazzaville: Misgivings about upcoming legislative elections

Jennifer Brea · 00:05

Demain Le Congo-Brazzaville has major misgivings about the upcoming legislative election, scheduled for June 24th. For months Demain has been calling on President Denis Sassou Nguesso, without success, to establish an independent electoral commission to prevent the irregularities that have plagued past contests. 1 comment · »»

April 26th, 2007

The French Presidential Election: A View From Outside the Metropole

Jennifer Brea · 12:38

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This weekend, more than 60 million French cast their ballots in the first round of the French presidential election, narrowing the list of candidates to two: conservative UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal. Both face a run-off vote on May 6th. In the five years since ... 6 comments · »»

March 7th, 2007

Francophone Bloggers on Oscars and Césars

Alice Backer · 21:59

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Hostess Valérie Lemercier performs a Guadeloupean zouk hit from the 80's at the Césars awards. Blogger reactions to the recent film award ceremonies in France and America are quite varied. Congolese Alain Mabanckou is happy with the attention Africa is getting in Hollywood. In particular, he is pleased with the ... 0 comments · »»

March 4th, 2007

Uganda: The Last King of Scotland, Cessation of Hostilities Agreement Expires, and It is a Sin to Buy a Yellow Humvee

Joshua Goldstein · 13:33

On Sunday Evening at the Kodak Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, an emotionally shaken Forrest Whitaker accepted an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Last King of Scotland, a film set in the frightful times of the Ugandan despot Idi Amin. In February, the grand ... 0 comments · »»

Links about Republic of Congo

April 14th, 2008

March 13th, 2008

Campaigning for health rights in the Republic of Congo: “Indigenous people in all areas of Congo Brazzaville live in precarious conditions and are subjected to discrimination and marginalisation, which prevents them from benefiting from all the rights recognised by international human rights instruments, particularly the right to health care and other interdependent rights.”

March 12th, 2008

Réseau sida Afrique shares the story of a 22 year-old woman [Fr] in Congo-Brazzaville, dying of AIDS in the town of Makoua, 800km from the capital and the free medicine that could save her life. (more…)

February 10th, 2008

January 16th, 2008

Two new associations for journalists [FR] were founded in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo in an effort to maintain quality and ethics in the profession.

December 13th, 2007

Kangi Alem announces an artists' residency [Fr] in Lome for young francophone African writers.

September 18th, 2007

The blog of AZUR Developpement, a Congolese NGO, writes about a recent training in “Web 2.0″ (Fr) technologies held with members of le Réseau Sida Afrique from Togo, DR Congo, and Republic of Congo. Participants learned how to organize email lists using Yahoo Groups, talk for free on Skype and Yahoo Messenger, upload photos to Flickr, and start their own free blogs on Blogger.com.

September 10th, 2007

Vous reprendrez bien un peu d'humanisme reposts a satirical “postcard” by MwindaPress from the Congolese president to his people about all the fun he's having in France and Spain: “We found ourselves in good company, a lot of whites, a lot of businessmen who swear by my greatness, my good qualities, and pray to the heavens that my reign will endure until the end of time…Life is beautiful in Spain, and even more beautiful on the Riviera!”