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Stories about life as a humanitarian aid worker, about remote places and the people I met there, about expeditions... From being ambushed in Burundi to sailing trans-Atlantic, the stories are mostly about enjoying the road more than reaching the dest
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Blog Action Day: Drought and floods hit the poorest
Fewer and fewer people who believe "Climate Change" is fiction. The hard evidence the climate *is* changing, is in our face: Hurricanes and typhoons become more frequent and more violent. Extensive droughts are followed by devastating floods.Unfortun...
Advocacy, the other way: "Why Congo Matters"
The discussion around MSF UK's controversial video sparked quite a lot of comments around the topic 'How do you portray aid and poverty' or 'How do you make people think about these subjects'.So I thought it is a good idea to show another way. A way ...
Picks of the Week: War jewelry, Seychelles and Africa...
It has been a while since I published my "Picks" or "Links" of the week, so time to catch up:Project Diaspora is all about empowering Africa by Africans. Read their moving pledge.WikiGender is a Wiki aimed at exchanging and improving the knowledge on...
Malawi: Teaching a person to fish
The food crisis is adding to the misery of countries already crippled by other burdens like drought and HIV.In Malawi people are turning to fish farming, not only for food and income but also as a way to cope with the challenges of HIV — in particu...
The LRA: unresolved questions
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) was founded back in 1987 as an armed opposition against the Ugandan government. At that time they based themselves in South Sudan, but operated mainly in Uganda.They became mostly known through their numerous abuses and a...
Marriage, the Sudan way.
Another story by Enrico, a fellow aidworker in South Sudan, who wrote several short stories on The Road. Late evening, I step out of our compound with a Ugandan colleague for a last (walking) meeting, when we're approached by a man wearing an militar...
A bridge being built in Sudan
I just came across an interesting blog, Unity Bridge, about a development project in Yabus, Sudan.Yabus is home to five tribes and 60,000 people, divided by a river that is impassable for up to six months every year.The blog follows the project to bu...
Worrying events...
There is always something going on, somewhere in the world, that keeps us, aidworkers, busy. Here is what is on our mind these days:8,000 Somalis are displaced in one day of fighting around Mogadishu (Full)A rebellion seems to be on the raise in Nige...
Picture of the day: Somalia on the run again
Hundreds of families are still fleeing the Somali capital, Mogadishu, despite relative calm in the past week following intense fighting between insurgents and government troops.They are joining hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons (I...
