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The Tegucigalpa–Niamey Difference

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…

Tazartché update

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!

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…

Rarerer andz rarerer are caturdays

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

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

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

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…