Africa: January 2011 Archives
Thursday January 27, 2011
January 27 & 30: from Yunnan Province, China - Pennsylvania - Jerusalem - Glasgow - Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Spring City Golf & Lake Resort on the island of Hainan: China is becoming a golf mecca for Asia. Photo/Anthony Germain |
China's growing affluence is spoiling a lot of good walks, as golf finds a following among the nouveau riche.
Why the world's leading Nazi hunter says Canada's doing a lousy job.
It's justice delayed for women in the DRC. A look at the plight of the wartime victims of rape in Congo.
Meet the Indiana Jones of lost languages, scouring the globe to save endangered tongues.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes
Wednesday January 26, 2011
South Sudan...a new national anthem here
South Sudan Hurray! is the national anthem of the world's newest country.
Rick MacInnes-Rae describes how it came to be, and who's behind it.
Categories: Africa, The View from Here
Thursday January 20, 2011
January 20 & 23: from Haiti - Dubai - Beijing - New Delhi - Rajasthan, India
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A branch of Fonkoze, Hait's largest microcredit bank (photo/Amber Hildebrandt/CBC) |
Fixing coffee or fixing cars: Given the choice, Maryam Darwish reached for a wrench and loosened a social barrier in the United Arab Emirates.
From Haiti, the story of a remarkable bank that provides literacy along with its loans.
Negotiating the Twilight Zone: a Canadian contends with a legal system that's ensnared her husband in China.
And, how to make something out of nothing. The pros and cons of India's can-do work ethic.
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Thursday January 13, 2011
January 13 & 16: from Cuba - Haiti - Ulvohamm, Sweden - India - Ethiopia - Tunisia
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Fidel Castro and wanted plane bomber Luis Posada Carriles, now on trial in Texas. Photo/Jose Goitia - AP |
Touchy terror trial: How did the U.S. war on terror miss the man who tried to kill Castro. Just clumsy? Or just convenient?
Anguish in the time of cholera: A medical student's powerful memoir of the cholera wards of Haiti.
Ehtiopian seeds of change: farmers return to old ways and old seeds, because the new ones are failing.
Tales of torture and rendition. But this time, it's India.
Hold your nose! What stinky fish says about the Swedish national identity. And why it faces a ban.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Americas, Asia, Past Episodes
Thursday January 6, 2011
Juba...boatloads of celebration here
In Juba, happy refugees are coming up the Nile by the boatload.
A referendum this weekend will most likely see the south vote to secede from Sudan, and become a new country.
South Sudan has oil, but Sudan President Omar al-Bashir has the pipelines leading north.
Which explains why the old, wanted war-criminal is suddenly making nice with a region he was at war with until the peace deal that created this referendum. And a promise of return for many thousands of exiles.
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Categories: Africa, The View from Here
Thursday January 6, 2011
January 6 & 9: from Juba, Sudan - Brunei - Diego Garcia - Serra da Guia, Brazil - Rohtak, India
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Brazilian traditional healer Dona Jesefa. |
The View from Southern Sudan heading into a referendum that's expected to create a new country.
Modern medicine is discovering there's much to learn from traditional healers in Brazil.
New information about the Anglo-American campaign to expel residents from their island home in the Indian Ocean.
And to Brunei, where a strange snack is making a comeback. It's a gummy paste with a yummy taste, if you can get past the look of it.
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