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Snaps from the last few days
The last couple weeks hasn't all been about refugees, thank goodness. Below: getting the straw off the roof before the rain comes! Below: Charlie making friends down by the lake Below: this lad is called Abba and is a regular...
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Refugee update
Photos of Friday's aid distribution to the Tuareg refugees in Mentao A few more smiles in this album than in the last one, thank God....
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Food Distribution to Tuareg Refugees
We went out to Mentao yesterday to distribute rice, oil, milk and plastic sheeting. Action Sociale is the local organisation charged with the refugee situation, so we invited two of their representatives to come with us. They suggested that we...
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Guardian Weekly Podcast
Oooh goodie, I've never been part of a podcast before....
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Refugee update
I went down to Ouagadougou last week to pick up Charlie (who is back from England) and to withdraw the funds you so generously donated - a total of 1000 GBP. Visited Mentao with Mark again yesterday to do a...
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Who's afraid of roughing it a little?
Here is a link to the Sunday Times FESHIBA horse festival article. The finished article was hardly edited at all until it came to the 'How To Do It' paragraph right at the end. Looks like the editor did...
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Thank you
Thank you to everyone who has responded so generously to my appeal on behalf of the Tuareg refugees in Djibo. It looks like we are going to be able to help significantly. I'll post details of the distributions as they...
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FESHIBA Barani Horse Festival article in Sunday Times this weekend
Our Barani horse festival article is in the Sunday Times Travel Section this weekend. This is the first journalistic project that Charlie and I have worked on together so we're really looking forward to seeing the result. For those...
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600 Malian refugees are setting up camp around Djibo
Mentao is a Tuareg settlement about 5k from Djibo on the Ouagadougou road. Mark's friend Mohammed lives there with his large family and many camels. I have blogged about camel-riding there on a couple occasions (here and here!). Hospitality...
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African chicken coop plan
We have four French hens in our yard. Yes I know, how very 'Fourth Day of Christmas' of us. My design was based on the common Fulani grass hut. (If you need to know, here is how to build a...
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Motorbike accidents in the Sahel
Another motorbike accident in Djibo today. This time it was Pastor Nikiema - hitting a hole at speed, on the way back from Weendupooli. He smashed his face quite badly but it'll mend. There seem to be a lot of...
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God's Call new content
Inspiring new content over at God's Call...
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Sophie and the Pancake Plot - chapter one
'Sophie and the Pancake Plot', the third in the Sophie series, comes out on 7 August 2008. Here's chapter one as a taster: Sophie and the Pancake Plot extract...
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Ladies of Djibo Launch
'The Ladies of Djibo Embroidery Club' sounds like something Alexander McCall-Smith might have dreamed up. Every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, the veranda resonates with the plip-plap of ladies' sandals, the cawing of laughter and the repetitive tickety-whirr of half...
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Muslim-Christian Dialogue
Regular readers of Voice in the Desert will already be familiar with its sister (or should that be brother?) blog, Under the Acacias. Keith Smith, who writes Under the Acacias, encouraged me to come and work in Africa, then taught...
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