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Steve Sharra’s excellent overview of blogosphere reactions to the death of Malawian blogger Mangaliso Jere.. RIP, Mangaliso.
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intriguing insight – Ethiopia might be rooting for Somalia to descend into clan violence again – a disunited, chaotic Somalia isn’t a military threat to Ethiopia while UIC was. Also, when will the US media start asking questions about who we’re killing an
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Andrew Heavens on the perspective of Somalis who’ve fled to Addis Ababa
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Sokari’s been giving a first-hand look at discussions at the World Social Forum in Nairobi – looking forward to the video and podcasts she’s planning on posting when she gets to better bandwidth
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Alex Burger is in Chad with the World Bank, working on projects related to government accountability for oil revenues. In this excellent post, he questions whether the WB presence is, on balance, a good thing, or another example of the resource curse in a
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Jordan is (rightly) legendary for its hospitality… and the nation is home to millions of displaced Palestinians. But how many Iraqis can move to Amman before the nation is unable to cope?
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Really amazing visualization of the web of influence of (mostly Western) intellectual greats. Fascinating both from the data viz perspective and for the ability to track trains of thought via generations
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Christine Chen calculates that there’s 1.3 foreign correspondents per each person in the US, a ratio that’s worsened by reports like the closing of Boston Globe’s foreign bureaus.
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Man, Emeka’s not going to be happy about this one… Search for “African Ingenuity” on Google and get “did you mean to search for: American Ingenuity”…
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January 25th, 2007 at 5:45 am
Ethan,
The blogger who passed away is Mangaliso Jere. Austin is the one who broke the news on his blog.