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January 30, 2010​
Sources: CNN News: [] Channel News Asia: []

__China Suspends U.S Miliatry Visits After Tawian Arms Deal__
Summary: China had said on Saturday, it had suspended military exchanges with the United States over $6.4 billion arms to deal with Taiwain, the turf that Bejing claims as its own. The arms sale included 60 Black Hawk helicopters, 114 advanced Patriot air defense missiles, and dozens of advacned communications systems. However, there's another deal with Taiwan that neither China nor the U.S recongnizes as a sovereign nation. They did not include F-16 fighter jets that China venomously opposed. The State Department guaranteed security and stability of the arms sales to Taiwan. On the other hand, the United States hope to persuade China to sign the harsher sanctions against Iran. The arms deal is the latest chapter in decades, long standoff. China also asserted Taiwan as its own land and menaced Taiwan that they would invade if Taiwan ever would declares its independence. Yet, the U.S had announced that it will protect and defend Taiwan if China ever invade or attack. So now many Western nations and the United Nations recognized Taiwan as the rightful Chinese government until the 1970s.

Opinion: I think that the U.S should defend Taiwan if China ever will penetrate Taiwan. I'm still confused why China complains and suspended the military exchanges with the U.S over the deal with Taiwan. However, I do understand why China would want to invade and take over Taiwan. That's because Taiwan was one part of China and now they are trying to gain their independence.

Compare and Contrast: I think that both articles have kind of the same information because they have the concepts but in each of the article, there are different spokesman and such. Furthermore, both articles explains the article in different ways but they still are the same. Basically, both of the articles have the same informations and summary.

January 30, 2010
Sources: NY Times: [] World News: []

__China Paints Google Issue as Not Political__
Summary: In Beijing, the Chinese government is taking an approach to the conflict with Google. This conflict was treated at a business dispute and not a political matter that could affect relations with the United States. Most media reports onn Google was that the dispute intends to stop Chinese censorship rules and might shut down China operations that criticized Google as trying to play polttics. This suggested that business troubles in China were the true reason for this conflict. Some Chinese say the government is escalating the dispute with Google unless the United States does. The conflict exploded last week with American companies had come under attacks from hackers and to be said that they were to be traced to mainland China. In response, Google is prepared to shut down Google.cn, yet they want to keep much of the local business and engineering operations. However, one internet security analyst said that China's approach might work to its benefit and should let Google do the escalating in order to put the blame on Google. So they are thinking of blocking Google.cn and receive the international opprobrium.

Opinion: I personally think that this conflict became bigger and was caused by the business troubles in China. I think that China's approach to this dispute wouldn't give them much advantage. And I also agree that this is a commercial matter not as political matter because this has nothing to do with the relations with United States and has nothing much to do with the government. It's a small dispute that whether Google should be shut down or so. But, I don't think that Google.cn should shut down because Google has yet changed the operations of its self censors searches and entering serious issues with Chinese officials.

Compare and Contrast: I think that both articles have different wordings but are somewhat similar to each other. World News basically has pretty much the same information as NY Times. And that's because the full article came from NY Times so that's mabye why they have similar information. NY Times were more detailed and fully explained of the whole articles. Also there were some pictures and World News just had a paragraph. So there weren't much information to discuss about.

**December 10, 2009**
Sources: CNN News: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/12/03/guinea.leader/index.html Aljazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/12/2009123224843239222.html

__**Guinea's Leader Survives Attack**__ Summary: The military leader of Guinea has survived an assassination by the head of presidential guard, followed by the government. Moussa Dadis Camara was slightly injured and his life is not not in danger. Idrissa Cherif, the Guinea's communications minister said that the president of the republic is still the president of the republic and he is in good health. Witnesses said that Conakry appeared very calm after the incident in the evening. Residents and tourists near Camp Koundara said that they heard many volleys of gunfire in the worst unrest since a September 28 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. Yvonne Ndege said that some sort of conflict had probably broken out between Camara and Diakite over whether Diakite would be arrested over the September 28 massacre. Diakite was blamed of having led the presidential guard that opened fire on the protesters that accumulated inside the national stadium. Camara had initially promised to quickly organize elections, however, ater said he planned to run for office himself in presidential elections scheduled for January 10, assisting the peaceful rally in September. The government denied all the blamed opposition leaders for going ahead with the banned protest. The September massacre led the European Union and the African Union to impose sanctions on Guinea accommodate weapons embargoes, visa bans, and freezes on foreign bank assets. Thursday's event happened as international investigators were in Guinea carrying out a UN- backed inquiry into the September killings to determine who gave the order to kill. Some people like Diakite, Camara, as well as others, may face charges of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.

Opinion : I think that this article was interesting. While reading this article, it reminded me of the very first article that we first read in class. About the crackdown in Guinea and the humanity. Well, it's great that the military leader has survived from the dangerous incident. I'm very curious to know who gave the order to assassinate the military leader of Guinea. And why would they do that? Is it because he did something? I have a lot of questions on this article. However, I still think that this article was very interesting.

Compare and Contrast: I found this article on both the websites, CNN News and Aljazeera News. This article is very short and there weren't that information. In the Aljazeera website, there were more information and they mostly mentioned Camara and Diakite. They explained the situation and how Diakite was accused. They didn't really give a specific number of how many people died but there were many direct quotes from reporters and such. On the other hand, the CNN News, mostly talks about the humanity and the opposition in September. They gave us an exact number of 157 people were killed and many women were raped. But, the article was very short so there weren't an adequate information.


== December 6, 2009 ==

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<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">King 5 News: []

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<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Summary: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">A regional African bloc on Sunday called for Guinea to return to civilian rule as the junta's number 2 assumed control of the country following an assassination attempt on its leader. The vice president of the military junta, rushed back to Guinea's capital rom overseas t take charge followed an assassination attempt on the junta's president. Abrouq said in the statement carried Sunday by the official MAP news agency that "The follow-up is favorable" and Camara is doing fine. Traffic returned to normal in the Fuinean capital, but many maintained tense and late Sunday a volley of shots rang out from an area of the Guinean capital flanking the barracks of the country's presidential guard. Sound of gunfire started a few hours after state TV announced a toll-free number where citizens could call if they had info about the wanted head of the presidential guard, who opened fireon the country's leader. The army killed at least 157 people and there beret-weaing soldiers then had dozens of women onto the stadium gass, gang-raping them in broad daylight, due to numerous witnesses and human rights groups. The level of violence was shocking further divided the already splintered army with commanders that were not present demanding that the junta leader arrest those who took part in the killings. Toumba was never arrested and he shot the coup leader allegedly following an argument over who wold take the fall for the September massacre, two government officials and a retired diplomat said. the junta has laid waste to the country's economy, already one of the poorest in Africa even though it has half the world's reserves of bauxite. At least 100 families whose relatives attended the Sept. 28 protest calling for Camara to step down have still not recovered the bodies of their relatives. =====

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<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Compare and Contrast: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> The article came from both websites. But, New York Times has more information that's needed in this article to tell us what's going on with West Africa calls for civilian rule in Guinea. King 5 news has only part of the article so it isn't detailed. =====

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<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Opinion: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I think that this article was great. And reading the part of gunfires and such reminds me of the civil war in Sierra Leone and the book "A Long Way Gone". I think that it's cruel that the army had killed numerous of people and dragging women onto the stadium and doing brutal things to them. =====

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<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Terror Free Somalia: [] <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> =====

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Summary: The ministry said that the vessel, its cargo and its owner, who was identified as S.M. Saeed, were taken into custody last week. Security patrols had monitored the boat and found it to be carrying a variety of types of weapons and 12 sailors from the Hes Bes area of Somalia towards the coast of Yemen. Last month Yemen said i seized an Iranian boat loadedwith weapos near the port of Midi, about 120 kilometers north Khoukha. Officials said that shipment was estined for Shiite rebels in the northern of Saada. They have been engaged in a conflict with the Yemeni government since 2004. The latest round of the fighting broke on Augst 11. =====

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Opinion: Personally, I think that this article was interesting. But, it's too short so there weren't that many information to tell you exactly what is happening. I'd like to search more information. And I was wondering if the conflict between Yemeni government and the rebels in the northern of Saada in 2004 was as seriou as the civil war in Sierra Leone. However, this article seems to be interesting. ===== Compare and Contrast: Both article really just summarized the article. But, I can't find the full article of this so I was just guessing this was just the beginning. Both websites have pretty much the same information. As I said before, this article was really short so there weren't enough info to read for this article.

<span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">November 20, 2009
<span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Sources: BBC News: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8370357.stm <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Portalangop: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/en_us/noticias/africa/2009/10/47/Somalia-ratify-child-pact,1e4eb913-c558-4879-870b-68aa12c92cbe.html <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Summary: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Somali promised to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - a move that would leave the US as the only nation not to back the accord. The UN, celebrated 20 years since the agreement was put into force and welcomed Somalia's announcement. The Somali government has little authority and its rulings are largely unenforceable. The US helped draft the agreement, but politicians have argued its measures impinge on sovereignty. Somalia is in its 18th year of a crippling civil conflict in which youngsters are forced to fight, and child mortality is among the highest in the world. The UN's children agency welcomed the announcement and reminded the Somali government that ratifying the convention was a commitment to protect children's rights. The convention guarantees children the right to life, education, and the right to play and to be protected from abuse. It was ratified by 193 countries of the widest international support of any human rights treaty.

<span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Compare and Contrast: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> I think that both article were well explained and has the information that's needed to comprehend this article. However, BBC News has more information than Portalangop. Portalangop article was very short. There weren't that many information on it to say anything about the article. It didn't explain much about the commitment.

<span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Opinion: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Overall, I think this article was great. I also think that the convention is great because they help protect the children's life, rights, and abuse. They should hurry and ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the child. There weren't much quotes and information to support this article. Otherwise, this article was very interesting.

<span style="color: #3c50c8; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">November 14, 2009
<span style="color: #3c50c8; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Kansascity: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> http://www.kansascity.com/438/story/1554344.html <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #3c50c8; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Seattle Times: <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010222128_apaschinaafrica.html China is offering to get rid of import duties on some commodities from Africa and make sure Chinese exports to the continent are safe. The proposals outlined by Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming come ahead of a summit Sunday and Monday between the Chinese and African leaders. A landmark 2006 summit in Beijing that catapulted China's hunt for oil, minerals and other raw materials in Africa was following up by a meeting. They brought Africa Chinese investment in infrastructure and other projects. The proposals seem intended to blunt criticisms that quickly growing economic ties. While creating too few jobs for Africans, China reaping natural resources and cornering consumer markets. <span style="color: #3c50c8; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Compare and Contrast: The two sources are really similar. They both have the same information that's needed. They're both short articles so there weren't many information to conclude the offer fro China to Africa. However, both article still summarized the article and the main idea of the proposal. <span style="color: #3c50c8; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Opinion: Personally, I think that Africa should take the offer from China because the proposal that they proposed was a good deal. This set up logistics centers in Africa and creating a system to weed out trade in consumer goods. On the other hand, China would also continue to build more schools and hospitals. And this will support malaria-prevention programs and help improve methods in Africa. Therefore, I think it's a pretty good deal for African people to develop their nations and creating a better life. And about the sources, I think that they're both have the information that we need to know about the topic.

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<span style="color: #4ce660; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Sources: BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3496731.stm Assatashakur: http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/afrikan-world-news/480-q-sudans-darfur-conflict.html

<span style="color: #35de54; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Summary: It's said that the UN's outgoing military commander in Sudan stated that the six-year conflict in Darfur is effectively over. General Martin Agwai said that secluded attacks and banditry were the region's main problems now. Some people have fled from their homes during the conflict and the UN says some may have died. The conflict started when it broke out in early 2003 after the Sudan Liberation Army and Justice and Equality Movement began invading the government targets, accusing Khartoum of oppressing black Africans in the favor of Arabs. However, Darfur means land of the Fur, has faced many years of over land and grazing rights between the nomadic Arabs. The farmers from the Fur, Massaleet and Zaghawa communities. The government responded to the rebellion that it admits the "self-defence militias" followed by the rebel attacks. But it denies any links to the Arab Janjawee militia. It's said up to 300,000 people have died from the combination of both wars, famine and disease. Also, there are thousands of peacekeepers in the region are trying to stop the fighting. The peace talks between Khartoum and Jem are being sponsored by Qatar, the UN, the African Union and Arab League. On this conflict, the blame falls on Mr. Bashir because he has frequently been accused of supporting the pro-government militias. Therefore, the ICC issued an arrest warrant earlier in this following year, Rebel groups have also been held responsilbe for atrocities.

<span style="color: #30d956; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Opinion: I think this article was very interesting and lots of detail. There are many information to state the main idea of this article and explaining details of the conflict. Both the sites have many information to understand the article and what's going on in the article. However, there weren't many direct quotes in the article to help support.

<span style="color: #44ca4c; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Compare and Contrast: Both the website are pretty much the same. They both state what's the conflict? How did it start? And many more to support the main idea in the article. I think Assatashakur basically just shared the information from BBC news. So they're basically kind of the same.

**October 30,2009**
Sources: Alla Africa: http://allafrica.com/stories/200910300660.html Daily Life: http://www.daylife.com/article/03Cs1hzgB6dNF?q=South+Africa Summary: President Jacob Zuma will lead a high-powered local team to the meeting this morning with President Jose Kabila discussing regional issues. The top government officials from South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are due to map out stronger political economic cooperation during today's South Africa and DRC. Issues were expected to come, including the continued support for the DRC's conflict reconstruction and development programme. Defense and financial issues will also be thrashed out by the two delegations. In eastern DRC, the violence will also be high on the agenda with South Africa pushing DRC to take action. Having the DRC being the current chairman of the block SADC, the two leaders will also discuss regional issues, including the current stalemate in Zimbabwe. The South African farmers will soon have access to more than 1 million hectares of farmland in the DRC. This agreement is expected to be singed during the meeting of President Jacob Zuma and President Jose Kabila.

Opinion: I think this article was kind of short. It didn't have enough information about the meeting between President Jacob Zuma and President Jose Kabila. So the article really just summarized about the how they're going to have the meeting and what's expected during the meeting. Personally, I think that the agreement of how the South African farmers will soon have access to more than 1 million hectares of farmland in the DRC was good. Compare and Contrast: The Alla Africa was the main website of this article. The Daily Life basically just used Alla Africa as their source to go through and read the full article. In Alla Africa, they didn't have much evidence to proof the article and and supported details. Therefore, there wasn't much information that I could talk and summarize the article. Also, there weren't many other website on this article, they all said that the full article is at Alla Africa.