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    Coming This Summer: Advanced Poetry Seminar
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Posted by Nataša Ďurovičová on March 30, 2011

Ivory Coast, unfolding....

A billboard in Abidjan (as borrowed from Carol's blog)
A billboard in Abidjan (as borrowed from Carol's blog)

IWP friend and past-participant Carol Spindel (Souk Ukaz/PeaceWork, 2010) , who has spent time in and written about her stay in Cote d'Ivoire, has been finding ways to keep track of the mounting crisis there. With hotter news happening now daily in the north of the continent, the Ivory Coast post-election crisis, quickly turning into a brutal civil war, has receded from the US media's headlines. Carol's citizen-journalism, conducted in part by phone calls to her friends describing the situation in and in the countryside, is an ongoing headliner at the Open Salon blog.

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