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In Zimbabwe Jail: A Reporter’s Ordeal

April 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses, Mini-Posts

In Zimbabwe Jail: A Reporter’s Ordeal - New York Times
It’s all starting to hit the fan - the “what I was doing in the late unpleasantness” stories are now safe to publish, apparently.

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Angola Pressures Zimbabwe on Arms - New York Times

April 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses

Thank God, this seems to be confirmed. It’s so weird reading about these details in blog comments before the mainstream news picks it up. Although it can backfire - an air transport company was getting tons of activist mail, and they got pretty irritated about it and tracked down at least one activist blog to [...]

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Zimbabwe: Images Of Protest

April 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogs Wot I Read, Hot Off The Presses, Uncategorical Weirdness

BBC NEWS | Africa | Civil society’s triumph on Zimbabwe
Image: South African church groups protest the Chinese arms ship An Yue Jiang at Durban harbor last week.

UN Move on Robert Mugabe as police round up MDC
Image: activists arrested from in front of the Chinese embassy in South Africa. One of these activists is a young [...]

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Zimbabwe: Cecilia W. Dugger is NYT’s beat reporter

April 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses

Celia W. Dugger - The New York Times
Story files of the NYT reporter filing most of the Zimbabwe news.

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Zimbabwe: Wanted In Order To Inflict

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses, terrorism

In Zimbabwe Raid, Hundreds in Opposition Party Detained - New York Times
He said the people detained were wanted on suspicion of “assault, grievous bodily harm, and arson.” They had been taken by bus to a police station less than a mile from the opposition headquarters, he said.
No, that’s “wanted in order to commit assault, [...]

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