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Unforgiven, unforgotten, unresolved: Bosnia 20 years on - FT.com
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Unforgiven, unforgotten, unresolved: Bosnia 20 years on

By Alec Russell

Mayor Tomislav Popovic has a dark three-piece suit, a diffident demeanour and weighs every syllable as if his career depends on it. He reminds me of a small-town Yugoslav bureaucrat from the old days; he even favours the wooden party language of Josip Broz Tito’s era. Only the picture of Prince Lazar, Serbia’s medieval tragic hero, on the wall of his office marks the change of tone in his town since Yugoslavia’s fall. I have come, after all, to the land of Serb nationalist permafrost. Visegrad is in Republika Srpska, the ethnically cleansed enclave carved out by Radovan Karadzic in the 1992-1995 war. When I ask about the picture, the mayor looks a little embarrassed, as he is, understandably, when I ask how Visegrad is confronting its past.

The French media : in bed with power
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France’s media-political embrace climaxed under President Nicolas Sarkozy. He gave himself the right to appoint the directors of state TV and radio. His links with private media barons are almost hilarious, featuring the manifold entanglements of a Brazilian soap opera or Victorian novel. Bouygues is godfather to one of Sarkozy’s sons. Sarkozy has called Lagardère “more than a friend, a brother”. Vincent Bolloré, another billionaire in media, lent Sarkozy his yacht. Dassault, whose family is big in fighter planes, is a senator in Sarkozy’s party, though sadly no longer a mayor, having lost the post after a court found he had paid cash to voters.

On the “night of Fouquet’s” in 2007, many of these men gathered with Sarkozy to celebrate his election in that swish Champs-Elysées restaurant. To those living beyond the choicest arrondissements of Paris, all this looks a bit like Putin’s Russia. No wonder Hollande has built his campaign around distrust of wealth and capitalism.

No wonder also that, on the average day, less than 2 per cent of French people buy a national newspaper.

Le fort mérité déclin de la presse française

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Presse Afrique : Chimurenga, le « XXI africain » : a pan-African English-language journal that change your view of Africa .

Et moi j’ai beaucoup de chance car j’en ai un exemplaire, que je déguste petit à petit. Le journaliste du Financial time qui écrit la recension avoue en fin de son article que lire Chimurenga « vous rend fier d’être journaliste ».

Je n’ai pas de conseil à vous donner, mais si vous vous intéressez à l’Afrique, la seule chose que vous ayez à faire et de contacter Ntone Edjabe le plus vite possible et acheter un ou plusieurs exemplaire

►http://www.chimurenga.co.za

Tout simplement superbe.

How to change your view of Africa - FT.com

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January 27, 2012 10:02 pm
How to change your view of Africa

By Simon Kuper

Chimurenga, a pan-African English-language journal, depicts the continent’s horrors, sometimes from very close...

I once had coffee in Cape Town with a Cameroonian named Ntone Edjabe. He ran an English-language journal called Chimurenga, but what I remembered from our chat were his vignettes of Lagos (where he’d studied) and Johannesburg (where he went next). In Lagos, he said, you’d be driving down the highway and suddenly see a guy selling cars on the highway. Lagos was crazy, and yet it felt entirely safe. Whereas Johannesburg seemed sane, but never felt safe.
Chimurenga illustration

I sent Edjabe some articles, but otherwise forgot about Chimurenga until a recent issue arrived in the mail. (Declaration of interest: I’m proud to say I have an article in it.) I read it and was staggered. I’d always thought the zenith of journalism was The New Yorker, but in parts, Chimurenga is better.

Syrians struggle to cope with energy cuts - FT.com
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Conflict-torn Syria is battling growing shortages of heating oil and other fuels as President Bashar al-Assad and the west fight a propaganda war over who is to blame.

#carburant
#électricité

FT.com / FT Magazine - Invasion of the body hackers
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Iceland : default doesn’t mean death | FT.com / Lex
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Message spécial pour les Grecs et autres PIIGS : un pays comme l’#Islande peut faire défaut sur ses remboursements et retrouver la « confiance des marchés » 3 ans après.

investors trust Icelanders again. Even though credit default swap prices jumped one-fifth to 264 basis points on Thursday, they are still several times cheaper than equivalent insurance on Greek, Irish, or Portuguese debt.

#finance #europe #Irlande #Islande #Grèce #Portugal #cdp #uncut via @lazuly

FT.com / FT Magazine - Don’t touch me, I’m British
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