IN FOCUS
VIDEO: THE WOMEN OF ROQUE SANTEIRO LUANDA, August 18 2007: Roque Santeiro is the largest open-air market in Angola and one of the largest on the African continent. If you know where to look, you can find whatever you want in Roque's sprawling stands. Women run most of the businesses here and in this video they speak up to protest against the government's decision to relocate the market outside the metropolitan area. The new market will have refrigerated warehouses and stylish restaurants but most of Roque's vendors will not be able go. One woman stated somberly: "Food, clothes, the money to send our children to school... it all comes from Roque. The whole family depends on our work here. I know Roque is going to close but in my heart it just doesn't feel right." WATCH VIDEOhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4516108301380301070&q=FEDERICOManfredi&ei=PeMLSKOrJaiO4wL_wbWoBAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqxwkp73MQ4shapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1
 
SOUTHERN
 PHILIPPINES
THE MORO STRUGGLE
 
 ANGOLA
WILL THE PEACE
DELIVER ITS PROMISE?
 
 AFGHANISTAN
CYCLES OF A
NEVER ENDING WAR
 
LEBANON
A DEEPENING
POLITICAL CRISIS
 
  
 
 
PHILIPPINES
TALKING POLITICS IN
AN ISLAND OF DEFIANCE
 
AFGHANISTAN
 WEST KABUL
LIFE IN THE RUINS
 
AFGHANISTAN
 TALKING TO STUDENTS
IN KABUL UNIVERSITY
 
 
 
 
AFGHANISTAN
THE MARK OF A
SUICIDE BOMBER
 
LEBANON
HEZBOLLAH
BLOCKS THE ROADS
 
LEBANON
 SCARS OF WAR IN
THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
 
VIDEO: THE JOURNALIST CONNECTION The Journalist Connection is an online magazine featuring reports, photos, and videos produced by young non-professional journalists who live in areas of conflict. In this video Maryam Ishani and Federico Manfredi, co-founders of The Journalist Connection, explain the project to hundreds of students in Kabul and Kandahar. Many have since joined this project. You can view their reports and post comments at: www.thejournalistconnection.com WATCH VIDEOhttp://www.thejournalistconnection.com/2009/06/02/introducing-the-journalist-connection-to-afghanistan/http://www.thejournalistconnection.comhttp://www.thejournalistconnection.com/2009/06/02/introducing-the-journalist-connection-to-afghanistan/shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2
PHOTOS: SECURING THE STREETS BAGHDAD, JULY 25 2008: We are standing at a checkpoint in the Adhamiye district of Baghdad with militias loyal to the Sahwat – the Sunni Awakening Councils. The streets are quiet, and the gunmen appear relaxed, yet Adhamiye is one of the frontlines in the struggle to recover Iraq. “I used to be an insurgent myself,” says Gibril, a 35-year-old Sahwat gunman. “Then my sheik told me Al-Qaida was not good. He said we should get rid of them and make... VIEW PHOTOShttp://www.thejournalistconnection.com/2009/06/01/securing-the-streets-of-baghdad/http://www.thejournalistconnection.com/2009/06/01/securing-the-streets-of-baghdad/shapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1
VIDEOS
PHOTOS
First published January 2007 Author and Editor: Federico Manfredi laspaccata.com
A PEACEFUL ANGOLA?
AFGHANISTAN
The Cycles of a Never Ending War
THE TALIBAN FIND A NEW TARGET KANDAHAR, April 9 2007: “From now on we will arrest all journalists, we will detain them, we will use them to exchange prisoners with the government and, if necessary, we will kill them.” The message of Shahabuddin Atal, one of the spokesmen of the Taliban movement, came from the loudspeaker of a cell phone during a journalist gathering held at the Noor Jahan Hotel in Kandahar on April 9. This is the first time the Taliban explicitly threaten Afghan journalists and the news spread rapidly in Kandahar and all over Afghanistan. A few hours after the announcement... READ ENTRY IN ENGLISH OR ITALIANOkandahar-8.htmlkandahar-8.htmlkandahar-9.htmlshapeimage_5_link_0shapeimage_5_link_1shapeimage_5_link_2
A PERILOUS JOURNEY KANDAHAR, APRIL 12 2007: In one of the many clandestine stations in the center of Kandahar, drivers wait for their minibuses to be jam-packed before embarking on the difficult journey towards the outer districts of Kandahar province. “Every time I take the bus, I fear for my life. Outside the city, the streets are very dangerous,” says Abdul Kabir, a farmer who lives in Spearwan, a small village in the Panjwayi district, some 40 kilometers away from the city center. A young man breaks into the conversation, eager to recount his own experience: “When I go to the village, at every roadblock someone points a gun at me. If I grow my beard, the soldiers say I’m a Taliban, and if I shave the Taliban say.. READ ENTRY IN ENGLISH OR ITALIANOkandahar-11.htmlkandahar-11.htmlkandahar-12.htmlshapeimage_6_link_0shapeimage_6_link_1shapeimage_6_link_2
 
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INTERVIEW WITH A WARLORD KABUL, May 2 2007: As I entered Malik Zarin’s apartment, on the sixth and last floor of a dilapidated building in the outskirts of the Afghan capital, all I could see were thick curtains and the shadows of men standing in the dark. One of them escorted me into a large living room, furnished exclusively with rugs and pillows. Some ten men squatted on the floor, taking animatedly in Pashto language and sipping green tea. They sported long beards and the traditional hats from Kunar province. A few minutes later two men armed with Kalashnikovs entered the room... READ IN ENGLISH OR ITALIANO kabul-15.htmlkabul-15.htmlkabul-15.htmlkabul-16.htmlshapeimage_8_link_0shapeimage_8_link_1shapeimage_8_link_2shapeimage_8_link_3