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This is our third Friday Digest! Each Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

Earth Day 2010 celebrates the 40th anniversary‎ of this special day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on April 22, 1970. Forty years after the first Earth Day, we have to face the truth: the world is in greater peril than ever… Climate change, pollution, environment issues; a lot of work has still to be done to stop ...

It has been a long time since we wanted to talk about cheese, but we had other priorities. A few days ago, we engaged a conversation with artist Pete Fowler on Twitter (@themonsterist): he said he ‘had the best French cheese EVER at le bourchon Breton in spitalfields mkt’. As cheese-lovers, we didn’t miss the occasion to reply to him; that is when the ‘French cheese’ post came back as a priority. Here is for the full story ...

We receive emails on a regular basis asking us if there are wallpapers of the Sama Gazette or buttons/icons to link to the site. Until today, the answer was ‘Yes, there will be soon!’. As of now, the answer is: ‘Yes, there is plenty!’. The whole package is available directly on this page or from the top right sidebar, you only have to click on the black rectangular button to access the ‘Sama Goodies’ page. We made ...

In August 2009, one of our first post on the Sama Gazette was: The (new) blood diamonds: it ain’t a movie… This post followed the publication of an article on the Boston Globe: The new blood diamonds by John Prendergast, co-founder of the project Enough at the Center for American Progress. Since then, more and more people are now aware of the situation and we can’t look away anymore. Starting today (April 19 – 23), Raise Hope for Congo ...

As you may already know, Sudan’s first multi-party elections in 24 years are taking place this month. But everything is not going right, as you can read the different reports concerning the elections on many news websites (read our previous Friday Digests to learn more). So today we want to catch your attention about this situation and share with you the recent tweets published on the Save Darfur Coalition twitter account @SaveDarfur. ...

This is our third Friday Digest! Each Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

Medecins sans froniteres / Doctors without borders has embedded a new slideshow we want to let you know about. It is narrated by an MSF communications officer, Michael Goldfarb, who also took the photographs during a two-week visit to Haiti in March, 2010. He accompanied MSF field staff on assessments of living conditions in makeshift camps where people had been living without basic assistance. A few days ago MSF published an article about the current ...

Last year, Sama Reader N’Gaye sent us an email about an organization raising awareness about Congo we decided to mention in: RAISE Hope for Congo: Activism you can wear. A few months ago, it’s Sama Reader Lissa who commented on Darfur, Congo, Burma: is ‘good will’ enough? about the great work this organization was doing. She has been following the organization news and events since then and this weekend Lissa sent us an email about a  ...

We follow many artists on Twitter. Artists we of course appreciate but sometimes their tweets are not as interesting as their work (and no, we won’t give names!). Pete Fowler‘s tweets @themonsterist prove the contrary. The artist lives in Monsterism Island and here is his Twitter Bio: ‘drawer, illustratorer, scrabble loser, sound explorer and yacht rock lover. Did I mention owls?’. Because of the Mini Boosh toy figures, TRWG!, the ...