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Tanzania / Mobile internet has the future! 2007-06-20 09:58:33 Yes. A lot of people would be surprised to hear that nowadays in a lot of African countries we have mobile internet. I posted this text live from the streets of Dar es Salaam. Mobile
internet brings...
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Kenya / Elections comin’ up: does Mungiki bring The Dream? (2) 2007-06-20 02:54:20 Does Mungiki bring the dream for Africa? What is the point of a so called sect, or ‘political’ movement that believes in killing people by beheading their victims? Sorry to say, but if do...
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Kenya / Elections comin’ up : Have a dream for your people (1) 2007-06-20 01:58:33 Sometimes i get really sick of Kenya
n politics. All these movements of old guys with big bellies, who have been around for almost 20 years and are now blaming the current government for tribalism,...
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Kenya / Now: Audio Garissa Camel Library online (3) 2007-06-18 06:20:37 Because they are nomads, it was easy for them to accept the CamelLibrary
in their life, according to Faraah Noor Farah. Head of the camel division of the Garissa Camel Library. The majority of the...
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Tanzania / 6.8198˚ S, 39.2799˚ E / For Dar Dreamers 2007-06-14 06:45:46 I am in Dar es Salaam at the moment. Four million people of which 70 percent in informal settlements but huray, they can enjoy these views, for free and almost daily! This one is for Dar Dreamers
!
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Kenya / 0.4571˚ S, 39.6386˚ E / Garissa Camel Library (2) 2007-06-14 06:10:29 Half May I travelled to Garissa for a report on the CamelLibrary
. Audio will available soon…
Dar es Salaam at the moment: enjoy your day!
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Tanzania / Community Tourism: who gets which peace of the cake? 2007-06-09 02:20:05 Tanzania’s economy is growing with an impressive 7 percent a year. Almost 18 percent of the GDP is being earned by tourism. The expected growth in number of tourists is much bigger than the...
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Tanzania / audiotest 2007-06-08 03:18:52 Testing some audio. In the middle of changing this Blog a bit more in a multimedia Blog, so you don’t fall asleep with all my writing ;-). Soon, you will find my Mobile Phone Made introduction...
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Kenya / Mohammeds birthday and the Kenyan coffee industry (2) 2007-06-08 01:15:23 Finally some pictures from Lamu.
Have a nice day!
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Kenya / 0.4571˚ S, 39.6386˚ E / Garissa Camel Library (1) 2007-05-20 05:42:18 Just back from the outback around Garissa for reports on a CamelLibrary
. Prepared for the worst but got the best tarmac road: six and a half hours from Nairobi. The more than hundred NGO’s...
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Kenya / Visit Dutch princess for micro finance 2007-07-06 08:08:19 In Holland, princess Máxima is an ambassador for microfinance
. Recently she visited Kenya
as member of a United Nations advisory group on Inclusive Financial Sectors. At a press conference in a...
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Stormy beach [Flickr] 2005-01-15 07:46:56 Arjen posted a photo:
Beach at Parnassia on a stormy day. Read more:Flickr
Kenya / Press conference Human Rights Watch 2007-08-13 06:15:39 Just back from a Rights
.htm">Human Rights
Watch press conference
. Please listen to the short talk I had with Tom Porteous who asks European Union and the United States to adress the violation of Human Rights in...
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Zambia / human scavengers on the polluted dumpsite 2007-09-19 07:32:36 Been a bit hectic the last days: Nairobi-Amsterdam-Nairobi-Lusaka-Kabwe-Lusaka. Finally some time to write a bit on my mobile. Arrived from Kabwe last night. Visited the town that according to a...
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Dutch writer Bas Vlugt writes Novel about Africa: Transit 2007-09-07 11:04:35 For those who missed it: journalist/writer friend Bas Vlugt presented his new novel last thursday in the Dutch
city of Haarlem. The story is situated in West Africa
of the now. It’s about...
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Namibia / Kalahari 2007-09-28 04:36:00 Sand, sun. Endless space. Sweat dripping from my chin. This the area where Bushman or San survive. High un-employment and more than average number of Aids orphans. Chinese, yes, even here in the...
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Togo / Lomé now: so far elections went well 2007-10-15 05:01:19 Arrived in Togo-capital Lomé after a 24-hour trip from Capetown, South Africa. I still owe you some stories from Namibia and South Africa and Ghana among them one about some Himba milionares in the...
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Togo / Lomé Togo-complot against the West (2) 2007-10-20 08:30:18 The masses decide the direction of history. Yes it is a cliché. Thanks for observing that. At least you know your cliché’s. And also: thew image is never as bad as reality, especially if you...
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Namibia / The Himba Millionaires 2007-09-29 08:31:28 That is the name I gave to this small community of Himba people in Namibia
’s Northwest where is just passed some days ago. Probabely the only Himba-community with a white female Minister of...
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Kenya / Robbery of the century! 2008-01-29 11:18:15 It is the people against the people.
I don’t see the sons of daughters of politicians fighting.
It’s the poor against the poor…
A poor Luo who lives on a fews shilling a day, has...
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Kenya / Coming up: pockets of rioting youth 2008-01-16 07:46:41 The morning was quiet in Nairobi. This afternoon i visited the informal settlements Mathare and Kibera. Police was around and Mathare seemed realtively quiet. Downtown Nairobi though there were...
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Kenya / Talk of the Day: If i would be Kibaki…. If i would be Odinga 2008-01-16 07:20:11 This morning, I went around with my Marantz PMD 620 and asked some Narobians what they would do…. 1. If they would be ODM-leader Raila Odinga and… 2. If they would be PNU-leader and president Mwai Kibaki It’s a rough draft, please enjoy the interesting views… Read more:Kenya
Kenya / 17.15 pm / Pictures: Just back from opening of Parliament 2008-01-15 08:30:24 Just back from the opening of Parliament
. Quit hectic. Noit enough room for the press, so I had to improvise a bit to get some pictures. A warm thank you to the dilpmats from Greece and Cyprus who...
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Kenya / Nairobi: Just outside Parliament now 2008-01-15 02:45:13 Just outside Kenya
n Parlement now. It’s still quiet, riot police are around and an old lady is removing dust from the streets in front of the Parliament
buildings, thus giving them a final...
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Kenya / Politicians seem to come from an other planet 2008-01-15 02:24:46 Good morning!
I woke up this morning realising how lucky I am. I went to bed with the story of a Kenya
n who arrived in Nairobi confused. He spent his last money on the bus to flee for his life,...
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Kenya / Tourism Board: ‘We are digging our graves…’ 2008-01-14 02:51:26 Just back from a press trip with the Kenya
n Tourist Board
. According to the Kenyan Tourist Board, things have never been so bad, not even after 09/11 when a lot of Tourists stayed away from Kenya....
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Kenya / Invitation to comment on Kenyan Elections: open letter to Kivuitu 2008-01-10 02:54:18 I just got this letter from one of my friends. Agree or not: it shows how part of Kenya
ns feel about what is happening to the country. Please feel welcome to comment on this open letter
to Samuel...
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Zambia / Mister Seaman from Zimbabwe, you made my morning 2008-05-16 09:14:49 Thanks you mister Seaman, you started a small coffee stand on Lusaka International Airport. You know what a traveller needs at the beginning of the day: good coffee. You started this small coffee...
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