♦ Barcelona FC honor Port Said martyrs in Egypt
♦ William Hague, Britain's foreign minister, has paid a surprise visit to Mogadishu to pledge support for the forthcoming Somali summit in London as it appoints the first Somali ambassador since 1991.
♦ Ethiopian Blogger Eskinder Nega
♦ Protests at Syrian embassies and calls for expulsion of Syria’s envoys after Homs massacre
via ♦ Syrians protest in London after 200 massacred in Homs | Demotix.com.
New book promotes ideas from American people on how to reduce trillions of dollars of deficit tw: http://snup.us/qtX
#Tunisia is calling for Assad to step down in #Syria and kicking out their Syrian envoy. Finally. Who will follow? tw: http://snup.us/qut
Blogger Eskinder Nega is facing terrorism charges in #Ethopia which could mean a death sentence. His true crime was calling on the government to allow free speech and end torture.
Meles regime uses foreign food aid to punish his critics. Ethiopia is one of the world’s largest recipients of development aid, receiving about $3 billion annually, with the United States one of its largest donors. This money does save lives. But it also “underwrites repression in Ethiopia,” in the words of Human Rights Watch.
Families and entire areas of the country are deliberately starved unless they back the government, human rights groups have shown.
Donors and aid groups need to ensure that their aid doesn’t buttress repression.
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Two surprise visits for #Somalia: #UK FM Hague lands: http://snup.us/quG. US drone crashes (no one injured) http://snup.us/quF tw:
57 Drillcorp workers in #Mauritania, 27 working for #Canada’s Kinross, are on strike over parity and conditions tw:
Snowing quite heavily! No sand or grit on the roads. #Austerity is austere here. Wish I’d remembered to get milk. tw:
Barcelona FC observe a minute’s silence for victims of #PortSaid killings in #Egypt tw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=L6CkJ8ft8QQ
Concern for the welfare of 5 of the 50 students arrested in #Mauritania on Thursday, and still unaccounted for tw:
#France has condemned the veto by #Russia and #China at the UN but is still hosting the regime’s embassy. tw:
Photo Essay from my friend Kambiz at #OccupyAustin #NDAA protest. 7 ppl detained | Demotix tw: http://snup.us/qxa
If #China & #Russia wanted a UN resolution against US repression of protests would #UK & #France veto it? From what I’ve seen and read about the US presidential candidate race, you can forget “free and fair” elections, too. tw:
Too much crazy in the world. #Egypt wanted to deport 15 Syrians who attacked their Cairo embassy to #Syria! tw: FB http://www.facebook.com/elshaheeed.co.uk/posts/323973700974954