mbalimbali: are you serious?

• Malawian civil society and media ordered to stop “insulting” the Head of State, His Excellency Ngwazi Professor Bingu wa Mutharika.
• Calendars in Uganda are confiscated because they will incite violence. (Yes, calendars.)
• 31 North Korean defectors repatriated by China; “Even the families of those who helped these defectors escape out of North Korea are being arrested and interrogated.”
• Morgan Stanley executive refuses to pay cab fare from NYC when reaching his $3.4 million CT home and then stabs cab driver in the hand (the exec also said “police wouldn’t do anything to him because he pays $10,000 in taxes.”) 
• Asian-American on TIME‘s Latino Voter cover.
• Charles Taylor, former Liberian president facing 11 war crimes charges, is pushing to get severance benefits for services he rendered as former president.

Malawi's major newspaper, The Nation, insulting the Malawian President. Photo taken by Steve Sharra