Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Daytime session at Sherigu Community Library
- La deuxième journée des activités de café littéraire à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Échanges avec la nouvelle gérante de la bibliothèque de Koho
- Reprise des activités de la bibliothèque mobile Pénélope
- Sortie de la Bibliothèque Mobile Pénélope à l’école Sainte Thérèse
- Bonne nouvelle pour les amoureux de la lecture à Niankorodougou
- Bibliothèque communautaire de Zimtenga ! Les livres attendent patiemment le retour des communautés
- Bilan des activités du mois d’août de la bibliothèque de Bougounam
- Bilan des premières journées du café littéraire
- Nyariga community library, daytime activities
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Our chickens in Ouagadougou…so cute… Tonny (pronounced Tawny) on the left and Speedy on the right
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No real mining transparency means $38 billion in taxes not paid by mining companies
Mais plus encore, le problème majeur dans le collimateur de ces éminents personnages n’est autre qu’une fraude fiscale à l’échelle continentale. « Il faut avoir ce chiffre en tête, poursuit Michel Camdessus, la fraude fiscale organisée par beaucoup de compagnies … Continue reading
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Je vais chosiner
My favorite word. It seems to be taking Ouagadougou French by wildfire, I now hear it everywhere even amongst my academic colleagues. They took the word “chose” which means “thing” and turned it into a verb, to mean “I’m going … Continue reading
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Opposition in Burkina Faso rejects attempt by regime to create a Senate
La concertation a enregistré la présence du Chef de File de l’Opposition Politique au Burkina Faso CFOP.Faisant suite aux échanges fructueux entre les participants sur la problématique de la mise en place du Sénat, les députés ont adopté une déclaration, … Continue reading
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Nuba Reports fighting continuing in Kordofan
On May 5 at around 6:30 the Sudanese Armed Forces repelled an attack by SPLA-N forces on a SAF garrison at Umm Barmbeita in Rashad County, South Kordofan. The attack lasted about 2 1/2 hours after which the 1200 strong … Continue reading
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Measuring Hope…. by Bruce Wydick offers interesting insights and research
But what was driving these outcomes? Could covering the cost of school uniforms and tuition for these children during their nearly ten years of sponsorship mainly account for these impacts—or was it something else about being a sponsored child. We … Continue reading
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More than one analyst was willing to go “unnamed” with a statement of the obvious…
The SRF attack took place just hours after the failure of a round of mediated negotiations in Addis Ababa between the Sudanese government and the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement-North. The talks were sponsored by the African Union. About 40 armoured … Continue reading
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Sukie, are there really desert tortoises at your school?
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Sukie, how do you like Ouagadougou?
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Land grabbing in Cameroun: Herakles Farms
Les auteurs du document expliquent s’être rendus dans vingt villages différents de cette région forestière et avoir constaté que les locaux n’étaient pas informés des conséquences de l’implantation de cette firme agro-alimentaire. L’enquête s’est déroulée en février, mais le cas … Continue reading
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Burkina Faso 183 out of 187 in Human Development index… for shame?
Life expectancy at birth is 55 years, mean years of schooling for adults over 25 is…. 1.3 years. Yikes! GNI per capita in PPP terms is $1,222. ( Digression: This is because you can have someone work for you all … Continue reading
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Excellent profile of Alizeta Ouédraogo and François Compaoré
Dès 2000, Salif Diallo, alors tout-puissant bras droit de Blaise Compaoré, avait demandé sa tête, sans succès. Diallo n’a cessé, durant la dernière décennie, de s’ériger en sentinelle face aux ambitions présumées du frère. Mais, à ce jeu, il a … Continue reading
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Monkeys found to conform to social norms
In the initial study, the researchers provided each of two groups of wild monkeys with a box of maize corn dyed pink and another dyed blue. The blue corn was made to taste repulsive and the monkeys soon learned to … Continue reading
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Very strange news item – JEM attacks Umm Ruwaba?
Strange because Umm Ruwaba is further east than El Obeid and En Nahud… how on earth did they get past those places? And why not attack El Obeid itself? Fighters with the Justice and Equality Movement, or JEM, attacked the … Continue reading
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The plow and women’s gender status….
Plowing is recognized across many rural societies as a gendered activity, with men controlling the plow . Alesina, Giuliano and Nunn (2013) have suggested that there exists a strong correlation between the suitability of soils and climate for the plow … Continue reading
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Cost-benefit analysis took a vacation at MCC in Mali?
Reading about the Alatona irrigation project the MCC paid for in Segou area of Mali. According to the document, the project cost $253 million and benefited 8,000 people by creating irrigation of about 5,000 hectares. So the cost per hectare … Continue reading
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Tristes Tropiques?
When you are with your daughter in Burkina Faso, and she doesn’t speak French, you spend a lot of time in the school pool. What is she going to do, pluck chickens with Salimata? She can’t, duh, she’s a vegetarian.
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First Guinea-Bissau, now Ralph Lauren?
The problems at Ralph Lauren centered on misconduct at its Argentine subsidiary, which over a four-year period paid customs officials about $593,000 in bribes to import the company’s goods into the country. The illegal payments allowed the company to avoid … Continue reading
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Exploitation des mines au Burkina Faso….
That’s me way in the upper left corner…. Was an interesting event. I will blog about it later tonight or tomorrow. Comme quoi, le sous-sol national, contrairement à ce que pensent les gens, n’est pas la vache à lait des … Continue reading
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Karim Wade illegal enrichment case in Sénégal is the thing to watch
Le montant global de la fortune de Karim Wade serait en effet de 694 milliards de francs CFA, soit un peu plus d’un milliard d’euros. C’est en tout cas la somme évaluée par ses accusateurs, et c’est celle sur laquelle … Continue reading
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