Water supply

Our friend Raba in charge of the water supply. Thanks to a NGO setting up this piped-in water supply Diare village now has water year round. It is a metered system so also now has other western problems associated with it....like how to pay for the water you use when there are very limited jobs to earn money.

WE THREE IN THE WEST - BENIN, TOGO AND GHANA

March 15th 2008
The Benin border formalities were a breeze......so much so that we mistakenly didn't even get a tourist visa at Immigration on the way in! We'd been riding around the dusty border town zipping in and out of Nigeria and Benin (there is no sign of an actual border, let alone some sort of barrier) just trying to find both Immigration and Customs when we finally found what we thought was the Benin Im ... read more

Africa » Ghana » Eastern

Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. A long series of coups resulted in the suspension of the ... ... read more

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