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Saturday, November 03, 2007
►Biofuel
Biofuels or Biodisaster? Oxfam Speaks Out 'fuck you '
Oxfam has warned that EU plans to increase the use of biofuels could spell disaster for some of the world’s poorest people.

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Tsotsis and Sangomas

Aren't we worth a lion each?

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Another Scene from Dongguan A Bryson in China

This bull appeared in front of my apartment building a few weeks ago. By some other nearby signage it looks like a Beef Bar restaurant is planning to open at the site. Interesting features like this are getting common on the street. More photos of other nearby establishments soon.

►On the congo river This is a very common sight in the streets of Kinshasa. You can buy a baguette almost anywhere for 50FC or so ($0.10). Women carry fresh loaves of bread in a plastic bucket balanced on their heads and walk around seeking customers.congo girl

► A Kiosk in Moscow

KIOSK
Dinc Arslan

She looked at me as if I have come with a bloody club in my hands to rob her pathetic kiosk that served fried meatpies and other stuff that seriously harms human digestive system.

Just when you are ready to run screaming out of Kaliningrad, you find you can’t.

►Traffic Police Copydude September 14th, 2007 Bordering Insanity
Dawn over the Kaliningrad-Polish border. In the night, we moved four car lengths.

►Twins are considered magical births in Congo.. ►Diamonds and Children

►Work sucks ►da beav in monrovia ►My Burundi

        ►Albania tirana Follow the line and you can see it goes
     up behind the tree... and straight through an open window
     of the Library!

►My India Sweets Seller

►150 dinars + no house = poverty and deprivation” — ShaheedBH

►ISLAM The tigress and the cleric

The Hijab - For some Muslim men, women who cover their hair only are not doing enough - they must cover their face as well - otherwise it's haram (forbidden). "Why is there always a male voice deciding how I should behave?"

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►Two girls I am now officially the founding member of the society against abayahs. I will be sporting a bikini when I go home. (Dang it's hot under there!)

January 21, 2008 Update on Kibera slum today Africa Expat Wife
Just had a quick work with our former night watchman who lives in Kibera slum. He said 'we have been living with the sounds of gunfire every day since we last spoke.
I asked if he had managed to get any food or aid from the Kenya Red Cross - he said;
'we got one bag of rice but it's very difficult, there are just too many people scrambling.'
I asked if there were any kiosks or shops (dukas) now open in Kibera. He said they were almost all destroyed or burnt and the one or two that are now open are selling at very high prices (i.e. 50 shillings for a loaf of bread v. 30 shillings normal price).
I asked if he has managed to get his anti retroviral drugs from the HIV clinic. 'Yes' he confirmed that he had drugs but they gave out enough for only two weeks rather than the usual two months, due to lack of supplies.
We agreed to stay in touch.

Africa Expat Wife