I read the VQR article this morning, and thought the coincidence too strong to ignore. Figured I'd be the one to concatenate these stories.
1. The What.
2. The Why.
Part of me wants to visit, but the one Nigerian I know doesn't really understand why.
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Yeah... I'll be going this summer for a month. But staying far away from the Niger Delta, thankyouverymuch.
I especially liked CNN's link to their video clip: "(Watch menacing rebels try to intimidate CNN crew)". It *does* read like a sign at Disneyland. What a weird world the media creates for us...
geoff.
wckirLast months National Geographic did an article on the Niger Delta. It reads much like the second article you linked. The pictures show a polluted dark smoky hell through which children and adults scavange (sp) for food or the smallest thing to sell.
The oil production is killing them rather than making life better. No wonder those who live there are angry.
I also read the National Geographic on the Niger Delta. Where do you think the rebels got that nice patio furniture displayed in the CNN pictures
WOW, John. AMAZING AMAZING new picture. I love seeing the photos of your surroundings but it's always hard for me to put you in the same context. This one definitely does it.
Great photo John. It looks like a still from the Oscar Award Winning film The English Patient directed by Anthony Minghella,and starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliet Binoche. I don't suppose you are WWII veteran Count Laszlo de Almásy?
On another note, I accidentally lit my hair on fire today, and now all I can smell are my singed strands. I am sure the mental picture will be of slight amusement. And the beat goes on...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/02/15/plane.hijack.reut/index.html
John, did you hear about this? I'm assuming you did...
add this to the end of the URL, sorry...
hijack.reut/index.html
I think I speak for many of us when I ask how Mauritania is reacting to the tragic death of Anna Nicole Smith.
Hi I love the picture. It is elegant, expressive and romantic even to a 84 year old woman who happens to be your grandmother.
Grammy Lucy
3 Ultra-Athletes Run Across Sahara
IN THE WESTERN DESERT, Egypt (AP) - Three ultra-endurance athletes have just done something most would consider insane: They ran the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days to become the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert's grueling 4,000 miles.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6428744,00.html
"Runners dodged land mines, kidnappers"
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=299725&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__sport/
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