AfricaVox 2007: Demonstrators stop clowning around

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06 June 2007

Demonstrators stop clowning around

Demonstrators dressed as clowns were messing about with police yesterday evening outside the international media centre - presumably knowing that lots of press would guarantee lots of photos. But today the festival atmosphere has faded as the protestors try to blockade the roads to Heiligendamm...

G8 demonstrators dressed as clowns Clown_demonstrators2_2

Posted on 06 June 2007 at 15:11 in protests | Permalink

Tags: g8, protests

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AfricaVox 2007

This blog was written by a team of African journalists, who worked with Panos London to report from the 2007 G8 Summit in Germany.

Our G8 reporters

Tigist Kassa
Ethiopian radio journalist specialising in HIV/AIDS
Kakaire Kirunda
Bureau chief for Uganda’s Monitor newspapers
Richard M Kavuma
Senior reporter with Uganda's Weekly Observer
Thabo Mabaso
Reporter for South African newspaper, The Independent
William Mapote
Journalist with Mozambique's KFM/KTV
Zinhle Mapumulo
Health and news reporter for the Sowetan
Abebe Teshager
Ethiopian radio journalist specialising in HIV/AIDS
Collins Vumiria
Chief news editor of Uganda's Radio West
Francisco Xerinda
Deputy editor of Mozambique’s Savana newspaper

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"The Rostock scene was not different from a scene in Uganda's Kampala or Zimbabwe's Harare..." Omar Kalinge-Nnyago

"It is a mistake to consider the protesters as a 'leftist' homogenous block as there are many differences in their ideologies and approaches to protest" Julia

"Environmentalists will always protect their side of the story but what Uganda needs today is to protect the lives and health of their citizens" Francis Mutazindwa

"If you have lived and worked here in Germany for any considerable time... you would know that this is a typical view of Afrika portrayed by the Axel Springer Verlag's newspapers for decades..." BRE

"What's the harm in reporting both sides? The point is that there is a lot of good, positive news in Africa. Choosing to focus [only] on the bad, just shows a hopeless continent..." Roselyn Mungai

"The question we have to ask Geldof is... after taking/viewing the image how did you change the situation of the young kid?" Reuben Gitahi

"Why do we continue to perpetuate the need to say Africa when the differences across this vast continent are so large?" Paul Crook

"Malaria is not just a health problem - it is an economic problem as well..." Damas Ogwe

"I would have agreed with your comments [about Geldof's choice of photo] if only things were that simple..." T McOwiti

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