Grandiose Parlor

The “[tag]We Blog for Darfur[/tag]” (WBD) project is receiving some attention from the mainstream media, the first stoplight comes from Mark Jones, the global community editor of Reuters, who wonders “if its wise to start a new blogging initiative or focus on existing ones.”
It’s encouraging (at least to me) to see Reuters writes about WBD […]

It appears this seemingly harmless post: “Blogging for Darfur“, has ruffled some feathers based on the comments it has received from one of the organizers that goes by the name/handle Esra’a.
While the Esar’a has done a good job of drawing some attention to the collaborative nature of the project - giving the impression that this […]

Continuing the thread of an earlier post, blogging and activism, a new blogging initiative: “We blog for Darfur” - launched by Drima, an African blogger at Sudanese Thinker, and some Middle Eastern bloggers - aims to shed more light on the events in Darfur. Drima, is a Sudanese student in South East Asia whose eight […]

“Western countries and America are not busying themselves out of sympathy for the Sudanese people or for Africa but for oil and for the return of colonialism to the African continent…To be occupied by the Sudanese army is better than to be occupied by UN forces, and the biggest disaster is if the Atlantic army […]

The Janjaweed, the Sudanese government killing machine, is “comprised of fighters claiming Arab background and has been one of the principal actors in the Darfur conflict, which has pitted the Arab-identified Sudanese against the non-Arab population of the region”.
The Sudan Watch blog draws attention to an ex-Janjaweed operative’s interview on the BBC. Here is an […]