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Jeff Danzigeris an American cartoonist, whose work appears in newspapers around the world.https://www.danzigercartoons.com/
A R A B I C A ارابيكا SYRIA OPPOSITION*Al Jazeera reports that members of the Syrian opposition told the network that “Syrian security agents were killed by soldiers because they refused to fire on unarmed civilians in Jisr al-Shughour.” The town, located off the highway between the northern city of Aleppo and the port […]
A popular tourist destination before the North African uprisings, Djerba Island off the coast of Tunisia is now teeming with “five-star” refugees, Gaddafi spies and exiled Libyan revolutionaries.
A Chinese analysis of why Kim Jong II has provoked a new impasse with his southern neighbor. The North Korean leader has a special knack for provoking crises as a means to obtain concessions.
Algerian journalist Khaled Sid Mohand spent 25 days last month locked up in one of Syrian President Bachar Al-Assad’s prisons. Questioned, threatened and beaten, here is his story.
A R A B I C A ارابيكا THE BLOGGER & THE ARMY*A new Google forum tweeted out by Wael Ghonim asks Egyptians to take part in a dialogue with the country’s ruling military council, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. The discussion forum “is a democratic way to raise questions about the council, […]
The arrest of war criminal Ratko Mladic demonstrates how the EU can be a force for stability, especially when it holds out the possibility of membership.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 In Bolo creek, the villagers are bunkering the oil from Shell facilities and refining it to sell it on the black market. Around 30 to 40 illegal refineries can be found all over the creek. The strong presence of the militants is keeping away the army and the police […]
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 In Niger delta, oil is everywhere in the soil. But even though the locals are walking on it, they do not get any benefit out of this black gold.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 Pipelines are going through the Okrika village. The old pipelines are leaking and sometimes bursting like two months ago, torching down nearby habitations.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 In Okugaju, the local population stays very poor despite the oil they are sitting on. The villagers want their share of their country welfare. For them, no electricity, no tap water, no road, just a highly polluted water where they cannot fish anymore because of the oil spills etc. […]
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 The king Chukumela Nnam Obi II, is very angry at the oil companies (Total, Shell, Agip) who are polluting his kingdom Ogbaland without compensating its people. In the same time, he is taking from the money from them and doing so, encouraging the corruption.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 In Bolo Creek there are around 40 illegal refineries.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 A man is refining crude oil in an illegal refinery in Bolo Creek.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 In Bono, the local population, angry because of the many oil spills and other pollutions, fight for Shell (the oil company) to leave their territory. After two years of fighting, Shell left and the villagers are using its installations to take out some crude oil and sell it to […]
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 In Bolo creek, the villagers are bunkering the oil from Shell facilities and refining it to sell it on the black market.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 A boy is taking away some barrels of crude oil to the place where it will be refined. Around 30 to 40 illegal refineries can be found all over the creek.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 Atteke Tom boys are arriving to Camp 9, hidden in of the mangroves.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 Atteke Tom, the big chief of the MEND, with his boys, in one of the eleven camps he rules in the mangrove of the Niger delta.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 MEND fighters under Atteke Tom in the mangrove in the Niger Delta.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 The time can be long in the mangrove for the Mend fighters, one of them adopted a monkey to play with.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 Atteke Tom boys are arriving to the camp 9 hidden in the mangrove.
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Prix Bayeux 2010
Photo Category | jury international Véronique DE VIGUERIE (Paris Match / Getty Images) “La guerre du pétrole” – Nigéria – Jully 2009 The Prix Bayeux is one of the world’s top journalism awards for reporting on war and conflict, held each year since 1994 in the northern French town of Bayeux. The 2011 edition is […]
Jailed and tortured under Muammar al-Gaddafi, whose son ran the rival team, Benghazi’s local club supporters are now at the heart of the Libyan revolution.
A R A B I C A ارابيكا SYRIA LIVE*On the Friday billed as the “Day of Freedom,” the Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera satellite channels unveiled a double blow to the regime of Bashar al-Assad: Both channels aired live feeds of massive protests around the country. It is not clear how this happened since […]
May 19, 2011
A R A B I C A ارابيكا ANATOMY OF A RUMOR *Bahraini newspaper Al-Wast and other Arabic outlets have published purported comments by the brother of the African maid allegedly assaulted by IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a devout, veiled Muslim. “She is a committed Muslim and wears the veil,” the woman’s brother is […]
A R A B I C A ارابيكا SYRIAN STRIKE *The administrators of the Syrian Revolution Facebook group are calling for a general strike on Wednesday: “Mass protests, no school, no universities, no stores or restaurants open and no taxis.” The call comes as the Syrian military continues a brutal crackdown on the village of […]
Just how effective have NATO operations in Libya been? Depends on who you ask. With propaganda percolating on both sides, military experts say it’s hard to know exactly how the conflict is unfolding.
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A Libyan War Diary
Award-winning Italian photojournalist Davide Monteleone recently returned from three weeks covering the war in Libya. The April 20 deaths in the coastal city of Misrata of fellow photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros has added a bitter epitaph to this latest assignment. But sadly, there is still a war to be covered, one more story […]
Transported secretly from Tehran to Paris, the films directed by Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof will be screened at Cannes, shining a spotlight on Iran’s repression of artistic and political expression.
A R A B I C A ارابيكا DAY OF DEFIANCE*Wire agencies continue to cover the Syrian revolution from a distance, relying on eyewitness accounts and amateur footage posted online. Syrians turned out across the country for the “Day of Defiance” protests, with at least protesters killed in Homs and one in Hama. Meanwhile, the […]
A R A B I C A ارابيكا IT’S ALMOST FRIDAY IN SYRIA *Syria’s community of online activists is organizing a “day of defiance” for Friday despite the military’s ongoing arrests of hundreds, possibly thousands of who the Syrian government is calling “terrorists.” The “Syrian Day of Anger” facebook group reminds supporters, “The people of […]
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From waiters to homeless beggars, the Syrian regime is busily recruiting ever more informants in its desperate attempt to survive.
Silvio Berlusconi’s decision for Italy to join the bombing campaign against Gaddafi has roots and reverberations across a region where all is connected, and nothing is certain.
Influential Italian Cardinal Camillio Ruini says inside the secret Conclave to elect John Paul’s successor, he was given a signed petition from his brother Cardinals to push for fast-track sainthood for the recently deceased pontiff.
Growing ambitions and soap operatic history inside his own family challenge Bashar al-Assad’s rule, as Syrian forces try to snuff out a growing popular revolt.
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The West Must Hold Its Nerve In Libya
Editorial: a Le Figaro correspondent in Libya says the anti-Gaddafi coalition should not give in to gloom or impatience. The rebels still enjoy widespread popular support – but they need help from the West.