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Zambia: Judge Suspensions Unfold into Embarrassing Drama

By • on May 21, 2012

The suspension of one Supreme Court Judge and two high court judges and setting up of a tribunal to investigate their conduct by President Michael

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Turkey: Poetic Commemoration of Uludere Airstrike Victims

By • on May 21, 2012

On December 29, 2011 in southeastern Turkey several Turkish Airforce F-16s bombed a convoy of Turkish Kurds on mules who were engaged in border trade, apparently mistaking them for Kurdish rebels.

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Zambia: President Sues Citizens, Media Criticizing Him

By • on May 21, 2012

Zambian President Michael Sata is suing an opposition leader, a newspaper, a radio station and an academic for alleged defamation. President

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Zambia: Tensions Continue Over Severe Fuel Shortages

By • on May 21, 2012

Zambians are bemoaning looming fuel shortages in the country where Kabwe, a town that links the city of Lusaka and the Copperbelt province is already facing severe shortages with motorists queuing for hours to buy the commodity. Fuel shortages in Zambia are not a new phenomenon whenever the Indeni plant

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Israel: Increase in Racism against African Asylum Seekers

By • on May 21, 2012

In the past few weeks two cases of rape of Jewish women by Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers have been reported in the Israeli media, prompting a new wave of racism against asylum seekers in Israel. Israel is currently home to about 45,000 asylum seekers; over 80% of them are from Eritrea and Sudan,

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Peru: Controversy Over Banning of Popular Priest

By • on May 21, 2012

On Friday May 11, 2012, local online edition of newspapers [es] broke the news that the Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Lima,

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Thailand: Red Shirts Back In The Streets

By • on May 20, 2012

Tens of thousands of Red Shirt protesters commemorated the second anniversary of the army and police

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Pakistan: Twitter Goes Through A Weekend Of Censorship

By • on May 20, 2012

Starting 1pm on Sunday 20th of May Twitter users in Pakistan suffered a total blanket censorship across all ISPs in Pakistan. Some ISP have received an email from Mohammed

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Science Blogging in Sub-Saharan Africa

By • on May 20, 2012

Blogging has become an integral part of popular culture in Sub-Saharan Africa but blogging about science is still lagging behind. Many initiatives have been launched to increase the culture of sharing in the African scientific world, yet African science blogs, particularly about research, are still

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Macedonia: Graffiti Art in “Times of Revived Antiquity”

By • on May 19, 2012

A short documentary on the Macedonian graffiti scene in the context of the state-sponsored art/construction boom, made by two female scientists and bloggers–Vasilka Dimitrovska and Ilina

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