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On behalf of the entire DipNote team, we thank our readers for their continued engagement and contributions over the last year. We wish all of you a healthy and joyous 2013! more »
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In about an hour and a half, 2013 will arrive in the Eastern time zone of the US, but it has already swept across the Middle East. In New York City, they're going to drop a shining ball in Times Square and the crowd will go wild. But New York City hasn't had the world's tallest building in years, and actually has budget constraints and such. To see it done right you need to go to Dubai, city of the world's temporarily tallest building (the Burj Khalifa, which appears to explode in this video), city of indoor ski slopes in the desert and flagrant wretched excess. A report here.
Okay, Times Square, the ball's in your court.
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Some thoughts on my last post " The General is dead " which was no more than a translation via Google Translate on a news story from Mutaani .
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Militant fans protest
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2012 nazret.com Person of The Year Catherine Hamlin Ethiopia: 2012 nazret.com Person of The Year Catherine Hamlin Last April, Ethiopia's late Prime Minister vested an honorary citizenship of Ethiopia on Founder and Owner of the Fistula Hospital, Dr...
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Benin President and Chairman of Africa Union Yayi Boni has been accused by members of the opposition New Patriotic Party of meddling in the internal affairs of Ghana.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Vice President Joe Biden have reportedly reached an agreement that would solve the tax side of the debate over the so-called "fiscal cliff," the package of tax increases and spending cuts that will begin automatically at midnight tonight. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and the Democratic caucus [...]
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We are taking a collective break from blogging until Thursday, January 10th to give us a chance to breathe and catch up with our lives. Till then feel free to read our rich archive of posts from 2012, check in with our "Best ..."-lists below and follow us on Twitter and Facebook where we may post occasionally [...]
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I'm preparing a number of pieces dealing with the old year and prospects of the new, which should start to show up tomorrow. In the meantime let me wish all my readers best wishes for 2013.
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The most hopeful I felt this year (to be honest) was when I thought IA was dead... I thought here finally was an opportunity for Eritreans to chart a way forward away from the strangle hold of a man whose actions, reactions and decisions have become totally irrational. The state of Eritrea is now a perfect reflection of the state of IA mental health.... whilst his resurfacing was a damper of sorts the nation's reaction to his 'death' was a story that must have hit him and his supporters hard... especially as reflected against the death, of the late Prime Minister of Ethiopia, that he refused to even acknowledge in State Media (to date).
...but there were other really hopeful and optimistic moments too (thankfully)... the late afternoon/early evening (I was so jet lagged and ...
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We are taking a collective break from blogging until Thursday, January 10th to give us a chance to breathe and catch up with our lives. Till then feel free to read our rich archive of posts from 2012, check in with our "Best ..."-lists below and follow us on Twitter and Facebook where we may post occasionally [...]
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Ronelda Kamfer's Grond/Santekraam (originally published in Afrikaans in 2011; superbly translated into Dutch by Alfred Schaffer and published by Podium as Santenkraam in 2012) is her second collection of poems. A moving tribute to her family's history and, specifically, the inspiring story-telling of her late grandfather, we get to know the history of the fishing [...]
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There are times we shake our heads or roll our eyes. When we could not invent some of the things that we spot in the media. For some reason especially New York Times journalists can't help themselves (though there are some exceptions like Lydia Polgreen reporting from Johannesburg). For example, former Times editor Bill Keller [...]
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Malcolm Fabiyi writes:
In a nobler time social criticism required more than just the ability to string words on paper. In that gilded age, social criticism was not only rooted in verbiage and media activism. It was not a career choice, or a meal ticket. The positions that public commentators took were driven by deep ideological beliefs, and their activism was not an act, it was a life style. Their devotion to their cause was one of total immersion. They were prepared to die for their beliefs, to suffer prison and privation.
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Following the fall of Goma to the M23 and the lack of progress in the Kampala talks, the United Nations has inched closer to naming a special envoy in order to jumpstart a larger, more serious peace process. While this could constitute a major shift in international engagement with the Congolese conflict, there are many questions and doubts remaining.
According to a UN official, it is very likely that the Secretary General will name a special envoy in the coming weeks. In addition, Ban Ki-Moon is trying to use his offices to broker a new peace process, one that would involve all concerned countries in the region and that would tackle some of the root causes, including Congolese army and governance reform and outside intervention in the Kivus.
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