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Africa Moment - Djibo stopped and laughed here and his sisters had no idea why; when he took me to Kara Kara, I laughed at it....now a 'Western mind' would say, "Why do you put up the stick and tire to mark the OTHER side of the hole? You'd fall in it before you see the road block!" So funny! I tested my brothers-in-law - they didn't see it; I asked my 7 year old twins, they both did!

Our trip to Niger - Oct 2007

November 29th 2007
Hello Folks, Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! (Was in Niger then) and Happy American Thanksgiving (was in South Africa then) I went to Niger for work in Oct and was able to get out to Zinder for the first time since leaving the Peace Corps in 1999. I've had a hard time getting motivated to write this blog; no idea why - just a bit overwhelmed with everything else I suppose. I just got back ... read more

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Not until 1993, 33 years after independence from France, did Niger hold its first free and open elections. A 1995 peace accord ended a five-year Tuareg insurgency in the north. Coups in 1996 and 1999 were followed by the creation of a National Reconc... ... read more

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