Daily Archives: February 29, 2008

Wikileaks Court Fight Heats Up

Update: Cnet.com reports that Wikileaks has won its domain name back after a 90-minute court proceeding. There are now nearly a hundred fillings in the case Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. et al v. Wikileaks et al, with a battalion of media outlets and activist groups filing friend-of-the-court briefs. You can read all of…

Chadian Crisis Deepen Fault Lines within African Union

By Thompson AyodelePhoto: (cc) Mark Knobil The situation in Chad evokes images of African countries that had similar poor political and economic profiles — Liberia, Chad, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia to name a few. What appears to be responsible for this plethora of crises has been a constant struggle for political power for groups that had…