Africa: Kenya's crisis continues, with a second opposition MP assassinated and African leaders making statements that have thus far been in vain. Ory Okolloh's Kenyan Pundit blog features yet another great submission from yet another Kenyan unable to believe the way things have gone.

Asia: The Atlantic Council and Oxfam worry that Afghanistan's future stability is slipping away. 

Further reading: Human Rights Watch accuses western governments of hypocrisy in their stances on rigged elections and political corruption. The Economist on the Soviet, and now post-Soviet, rhetorical tactic of whataboutism. Taiwan's independence a "pseudo-issue"?