This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive.

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50 years of DR Congo
To mark the anniversary, Congolese photographer Stefan Vanfleteren has produced a series of 50 portraits that examine the state of a troubled nation…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/10431994.stm

Lady Amos given top UN humanitarian affairs job
Lady Amos, the first black woman to sit in the cabinet, was today appointed as the most senior UN official in charge of humanitarian affairs and emergency relief. Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, announced the appointment of Amos as under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief after…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/09/valerie-amos-un-humanitarian-affairs

It’s As If Apple Has Hired Don Draper
The other day I was talking to an old friend. Not only is this friend outside the tech sphere, he’s just about as opposite of tech savvy as a person can be. He’s basically a luddite. In fact, I was surprised he was even IMing with me, he’s so seldom online. But I was more surprised by what he asked me. “What do you think of…
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/10/apple-facetime-commercial/

New Analysis Triples U.S. Plutonium Waste Figures
 The amount of plutonium buried at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is nearly three times what the federal government previously reported, a new analysis indicates, suggesting that a cleanup to protect future generations will be far more challenging than planners had assumed…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/science/earth/11plutonium.html

Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a ‘world-killing’ event
Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico may be about to reach biblical proportions. 251 million years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive explosions, poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent…
http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-doomsday-how-bp-gulf-disaster-may-have-
triggered-a-world-killing-event

Survivors Seek Justice on 15th Anniversary of Srebrenica Massacre
Preparations are underway for the 15th anniversary of Europe’s worst massacre since World War II. On July 11, 1995 about 8,000 Muslims were killed in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica during the Balkan conflict that broke up Yugoslavia…
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Bosnia-Marks-15th-Anniversary-of
-Srebrenica-Massacre-98167254.html

Afghanistan: When Women Set Themselves on Fire
Fawzia felt like she had no way out. Married off to her cousin at age 16, she had been beaten routinely by her husband and in-laws in their poor rural home in Paktia province for the first three years of her marriage. She complained bitterly to her parents, but no solution seemed imminent…
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2002340,00.html

We have abandoned the Haitians
How countries recover from major natural disasters can define their future political and social destinies. The Boxing Day tsunami in 2004, which killed 230,000 people, led indirectly to the end of the conflict in East Timor. But it also contributed to a renewal of bloody civil war in Sri Lanka. How aid is delivered can mean…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/11/editorial-haiti-aid

How to Help Congo
If you’re enraged by Congo’s mass rape crisis and violent mineral trade, don’t stay silent! See our list of seven effective nonprofits working to change the country’s course. Donate and take action now!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-28/how-to-help-congo/

Bombers Kill More Than 60 in Attacks in Uganda Capital
At least 64 people were killed when bombs exploded Sunday in a synchronized attack on large gatherings of World Cup soccer fans watching the televised final on outdoor screens in this normally peaceful capital, police officials said on Monday. President Yoweri Museveni visited the bomb sites Monday morning and condemned…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/world/africa/13uganda.html

Burma’s paranoid dictator plots his dignified exit
In the run-up to a long promised but still unscheduled general election, the first for 20 years, Burma’s military dictator, Senior-General Than Shwe, has taken a step full of peril: he has ordered his uniformed cabinet ministers to resign from the army…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/burmas-paranoid-dictator-plots-his
-dignified-exit-2024395.html

Consumer Reports Says iPhone 4 Has Design Flaw
Consumer Reports said in a blog post and accompanying video on Monday that widely reported signal problems with the iPhone 4, Apple’s latest mobile phone, were a result of a flaw in the phone’s antenna design and that it could not recommend purchasing the phone. That contradicts earlier claims by Apple that…
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/consumer-reports-says-iphone-4-has-
design-flaw/

“American Splendor” Comic Book Writer Harvey Pekar Dies at 70 in Ohio
Harvey Pekar, whose autobiographical comic book series “American Splendor” portrayed his unglamorous life with bone-dry honesty and wit, was found dead at home early Monday, authorities said. He was 70. The cause of death was unclear, and an autopsy was planned, officials said. Pekar had prostate cancer, asthma…
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=39235

‘Google Me’ site may be in the works
If online reports are to be believed, Google could be cooking up a rival for Facebook — and bringing the maker of popular social games like “FarmVille” with them. Google Games, built around some sort of partnership with casual-gaming company Zynga, is in the works and would be part of a larger social network called Google Me…
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/07/12/google.zynga.games/
index.html

Hayao Miyazaki: iPad Use ‘Disgusting,’ “Masturbation-Like’
Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, known for animated cinematic greats like Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Howl’s Moving Castle , is no fan of Apple’s “magical” new iPad–or gadgets in general. According to Kotaku, Miyazaki compared iPad use to masturbation in a recent interview with a Japanese publication, “Neppuu.”…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/12/hayao-miyazaki-ipad-use-d_n_
643304.html

BP oil cap may have spill under control
BP held out hope today that it had finally brought America’s worst oil spill under control, when a senior executive expressed optimism about a new cap that for the first time since April has stopped oil gushing from a deepwater well. The vice-president, Kent Wells, said pressure was holding up inside the cap, indicating that oil…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/16/bp-oil-cap-spill-control

The Genocide Behind Your Smart Phone
It takes a lot to snap people out of apathy about Africa’s problems. But in the wake of Live Aid and Save Darfur, a new cause stands on the cusp of going mainstream. It’s the push to make major electronics companies (manufacturers of cell phones, laptops, portable music players, and cameras) disclose whether they…
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/16/the-genocide-behind-your-smart-
phone.html