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Yoaní Sanchez & other Cuban bloggers detained, beaten

Posted by Georgia Popplewell on 07/11/2009

On the evening of November 6, Babalú blog linked to a post by Penultimos Dias (es) reporting that a number of prominent Cuban bloggers, including Yoaní Sánchez and Global Voices contributor Claudia Cadelo, were detained by state security forces. An update from Penultimos Días reported that Sanc ...

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Cameroon: Africonline sponsors BarCamp Cameroon

Posted by Ndesanjo Macha on 06/11/2009

Africonline has become the official sponsor of BarCamp Cameroon: “Along with ,Ringo,Google and a few others Africonline is now an official sponsor of BarCamp Cameroon ! Africonline is a newly formed African Centered design and development Group.”

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Serbia: Sinisa Boljanovic Wins Climate Change Blogging Contest

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 06/11/2009

Sinisa Boljanovic, a GV author and Lingua Serbian editor, became one of the winners of Round 1 of TH!NK2: CLIMATE CHANGE blogging contest; here's Sinisa's winning entry: Black Point of the Danube Basin.

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Russia: Calling Abkhazia Via Russia

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 06/11/2009

Eternal Remont reports that “as of November 16, Abkhazia will adopt Russian area codes for telephone service. This means than everyone trying to reach Uncle Bagrat in Gagra will have to call Russia and not Georgia.”

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Belarus: Webmaster and Politics

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 06/11/2009

Andrei Khrapavitski reports on problems faced by a Belarusian political party following the election of a new leader: “According to the Belarusian blogosphere, a webmaster, loyal to the previous leader, is refusing to pass passwords and website requisites to the new team. Thus they cant update ...

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