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I was lucky enough to get back home to Sussex for a few days over Easter to see my family - it was great to see my children for real rather than over a blurry Skype connection. Two of them go …
I spent Saturday afternoon with my family visiting a dance group that has been established in Mafalala bairro of Maputo. The bairro is an area of tightly packed shacks and houses on the road towards Maputo airport. The living conditions are …
The lively and very tighly packed (both in terms of agenda and physical space!) joint meeting between the Ministry of Health and development partners held in Maputo on 3rd April closed with a very clear statement of solidarity with the Ministry of Health from development …
We were all crammed in to the 9th floor meeting room of the Ministry of Health on Friday 3rd April, for one of the twice yearly big meetings between the Minister of Health ( Paulo Ivo Garrido ), and development partners. It was …
For those of you following the Pope and condoms discussion, I am attaching a very helpful briefing note from UNAIDS, which sets out the UN position. For those with no time to read the attachment, a key message is: "Condoms …
Friends in the NGO community here in Mozambique have been applauding the recent statement by Margaret J. Pollack, the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the State, in the US delegation statement to the United Nations Commission on Population and Development. …
There has been a flurry of activity here in Maputo, as we prepared for the large annual meeting between the Ministry of Health and its development partners to review the performance of the health sector in 2008. I took my camera …
Hundreds of people trudged up the long hill to Nyanza, many of them wearing something purple, a neckscarf, a wrap, even a purple wristband. The colour purple is the colour of mourning in Rwanda and yesterday, 7th April, was the 15th Anniversary …
In time honoured fashion I managed to trick my kids to run out to see an imaginary friend on April Fools' morning - although I suspect when they get older I'll be on the receiving end. Skimming the Nigerian press, …
Jeanne fiddled with the edge of her gitenge, tracing the pattern in the brown cloth with her finger again and again, telling me her experiences in the Rwandan genocide, and of the years after 1994. I sat in her small …
