Africa

Totally driven The Dakar Rally is the motorsport world’s most demanding and challenging course. Padraic Halpin fi nds out what it is that spurs the competitors to go the distance and navigate the treacherous terrain… The ultimate test of sporting survival… the most demanding event in the world. These kind […]

Totally Driven

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Girl power The world is focused on the many crises Africa faces. Armed with little more than the courage of their convictions, Ann Wanjiru, Pascasie Mukamunigo and Aminata Deiye are three visionary African women who, with few financial resources, have devoted themselves to improving life in their native countries AIDS: […]

Girl Power

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Off the beaten track in Sierra Leone Sierra Leone’s outstanding natural attractions offer travelers unbeatable adventures. Anita Ferruzzi checks out some of the country’s environmental delights Pick up any guidebook, no matter how dated, and it will tell you that Sierra Leone has some of the world’s best beaches. The […]

Off the beaten track in Sierra Leone

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The soul of Senegal African music has been planted firmly on the world’s map thanks to the success of Grammy award-winning artist Youssou N’Dour. Rose Skelton reveals that he hasn’t forgotten his roots in Senegal, as he tirelessly campaigns to develop Africa… If there’s one experience visitors to Dakar have […]

The Soul of Senegal

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Variety Show: Cameroon CAMEROON Cameroon is a country of great diversity and unusual beauty, as Njei Moses Timah discovers on a North West Province road trip from Douala to Wum Anyone trying to describe the whole of Africa briefly could almost do so in one word: Cameroon. Not only does […]

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Haven of mercy The Mercy Ship Anastasis brings hope and healing to some of the world’s most impoverished places. Nearly three decades after being converted into a hospital ship, the Anastasis is coming to the end of her final field service, docked in Monrovia, Liberia Liberia, a West African nation […]

Haven of mercy

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Dancing in the street / C’est parti pour la danse! Clubs branchés, bars aux ambiances chaudes ou places de marché. La musique congolaise est omniprésente en Afrique. b!Spirit est descendu dans les rues de Kinshasa à l’écoute de ce phénomène Kinshasa est fière de sa reconnaissance de capitale de la […]

Dancing in the Street

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Mobile movement Africa is the world’s fastest growing mobile market, with more people using mobiles than fixed lines across the continent. Rhymer Rigby takes a look at mobile phone opportunities throughout Africa Le mobile en mouvement L’Afrique est le continent où le marché du portable connaît la plus forte expansion […]

Mobile movement

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Bananas mean Business Bananas are big business in the world of fruit and cargo, nowhere more so than in Uganda. We go behind the scenes of the country’s banana trade to find out more Boiled, grilled or roasted, however you choose to cook them, green bananas are a popular food […]

Bananas mean business

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On the djembe beat The African djembe drum has in the past few decades enjoyed a startling explosion of interest worldwide. With roots in Guinea, drummers have fanned out worldwide and are now bringing students back to experience the culture first hand Aux rythmes du djembé Le début des années […]

On the djembe beat

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