This was the weekend for Coups: was the death of Michael Jackson assumed to distract us all? Regardless, a couple of Nigeriens have pointed out the uncanny similarities between the situation of President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya and President of…
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That’s Tandja done?
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In a radio speech to the nation on Friday night (the sabbath), President Tandja announced he was dissolving the government and would rule by decree.
Tazartché update
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Just when you’d like to put it to bed, the constitutional crisis in Niger continues, weaving like a distracted taxi driver: from sigh to scream and back again. I’ll focus a bit on three events of importance. After Tandja sent…
Bloemfontein Blowout!
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One of the three best nights for US football just happened in beautiful Bloemfontein, the States reaching the finals of the Confederation Cup by convincingly shutting down Spain, a side unbeaten since 2006, European champions, and argubly the best team in the…
Needed Bandaids for Malaria
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I recently saw an appeal from US high school students, raising funds for anti-malarial bed nets to be delivered to the DRC. “When people find out they can donate $10 to save a life,”
Rarerer andz rarerer are caturdays
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Decent caturdays are rarer and rarer now that Icanhascheezburger has, in true capitalist fashion, cornered the market and vanillanized the “genre”. Here are a couple of options: http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/harbl/interesting/ Related articles by Zemanta A Day Without Cats … PROTEST!!!! (buzzfeed.com)
Tazartché Death Throes
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It seems every time the Nigerien political crisis nears some resolution, it swerves wildly in the other direction. The inevitable end seems to be preordained against President Tandja, barring a true coup d’etat. But his cadre of supporters, comfortable in…
Iran updates
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Pictures coming out via Twitter and phones are being collected a number of places, including here. A statement by the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI): “Long live revolution against the Islamic Republic of Iran!” Member and blogger Saeed Valadbaygi’s Revolutionary…
Mr. Françafrique 1973
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This one image sums up the — still — late Omar Bongo Ondimba better than any words could. If you want to see where the postcolonials learned their tricks, look to their models. Omar Bongo (née Albert-Bernard Bongo) was French…
Last of the Tarnac 9 freed
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Julien Coupet, French situationalist shopkeeper, accused ringleader of “anarcho-autonomous” train saboteurs, and really insufferable pontificator, was finally released yesterday from a Paris jail, on remand.