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A loan in the dark Although ranked as one of the world’s poorest countries by the United Nations, Sierra Leone is in the process of creating an entrepreneurial middle class using microfinance schemes to promote local economic development. Mariama Jalloh used to keep all her money in a drawer by […]

A loan in the dark

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Audio Emerald Book A relaxing musical journey in time and harmonyUn voyage relaxant au cœur du temps et de l’harmonie Oppermann Emerald Forest (Biber)Zelwer Rest Awhile (MTM)Paul Giger Crossing (ECM)Paul Horn Initiation (Kuckuck)John Surman Not Love Perhaps (ECM)David Darling Psalm (ECM)Doudou N’diaye Rose Rose Rythm (Virgin)Renaud Garcia-Fons Inanga (Harmonia Mundi)Arild Andersen If You Look (ECM)Staurt Dempster Didjeridervish (New Albion)Mike Figgis History […]

Audio

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Airline news Alfred Kidjo Head of Distribution Services Distribution in the airline business is a complicated business, and I’ve been in it for 10 years now. The main challenge has always been to control the costs and maintain efficiency while bringing our product offer to as wide a market as […]

Airline News

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What to See: Our Video Picks The Ruins Thriller 90 minsCert RDirector Carter SmithCast Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey, Jena Malone Based on the terrifying bestseller by Scott Smith. A group of American friends must struggle for survival after visiting a remote archaeological dig in the Mexican jungle, where they discover something deadly living among […]

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Fare treatment Despite disapproving looks and barely concealed jealousy, Senegal’s new all-female taxi company is driving the competition, as Rose Skelton discovers ELdging along the congested main road that leads in and out of Senegal’s seaside capital, Dakar, a young woman in a bright headscarf leans out of a taxi window. “Taxi […]

Fare treatment

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African Browser: Comics from the Ivory Coast & the latest luxury lodges NEW OPENINGS The Sanctuary at Ol LentilleNaibunga Conservancy, Kenya If having your own private house (complete with butler) in a 2,400-hectare private conserved area sounds indulgent, it is! But 75km north of Mount Kenya, the Sanctuary at Ol […]

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Nobel Cause Kenya’s 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai talks about environmentalism and women’s rights activism, and how they’re essential to Africa’s future. Wangari Maathai adjusts her headscarf as she describes the moment she discovered she’d won the Nobel Peace Prize. It was an October day in 2004 and […]

Nobel Cause

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Et Dieu créa la femme Nous rendons ici un hommage aux femmes importantes à travers les époques qui ont contribué à dessiner les contours de l’Afrique 3.2 million years ago: Lucy Dans les années 1960, les biologistes avaient deux théories sur nos origines : selon la première, les humains étaient […]

Et Dieu créa la femme

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Life’s Rich Pageant The winner of Miss Landmine Angola 2008 is Augusta Hurica, a beautiful woman with only one leg. Her prize is a new custom-made artificial limb, but it’s hoped her victory will do even more for her country, highlighting the tragedy of a landscape that’s littered with thousands […]

Life’s Rich Pageant

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KINSHASA CITY GUIDE COUNTRY CODE FOR DRC +243 DRCPopulation: 65,752,000Currency: Congolese francAverage temperature (Mar-Apr): 27ºC GETTING AROUND N’Djili International Airport lies 50km east of Kinshasa. Getting into the city is best done by taxi for about 10,000 Congolese francs (€12). These taxis are easily identifiable right outside N’Djili’s main building – expect to […]

Kinshasa

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