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1 Goal, girls and the super Eaglets

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 9 November 2009 - Categories: Education, Nigeria

Nigeria is currently going through its own mini World Cup fiesta. After many months of doubt, deliberation and dubious ‘readiness reports’ the FIFA Under 17 World Cup is on and much of this football crazy nation are intensively following the super …

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Caterpillars, water and more in Mbuji Mayi

Posted by: Sarra Deya Ismail, Posted on: 27 October 2009 - Categories: Democratic Republic of Congo, Infrastructure

My colleagues and I went to Mbuji Mayi (capital of Kasai-Oriental Province) for three days to attend the opening ceremony for the first water network out of eleven that will be constructed in Mbuji Mayi using DFID funds. The day started …

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Blog Action Day | A Personal Journey – from Lomborg to Pachauri via Stern (and Homer Simpson!)

Posted by: Shantanu Mitra, Posted on: 15 October 2009 - Categories: Climate Change

If someone had suggested to me six or seven years ago that I would end up working on climate change, I would have taken it with a pinch of salt. If I thought much about the issue at all I …

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Hurry, or we’ll be late

Posted by: Jummai Bappah, Posted on: 7 October 2009 - Categories: Nigeria

It’s just 7.15 am and it is already hot. Not from the morning sun (even though it's out and shining), but from the high overnight temperature that has not receded (talk about climate change!). It was a hot night and …

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Khartoum to Kinshasa: Ramadan to Eid

Posted by: Sarra Deya Ismail, Posted on: 7 October 2009 - Categories: Democratic Republic of Congo

Coming from Khartoum, inevitably, the first thing you notice about Kinshasa is the weather. While similarly humid (I left at the end of the Khartoum rainy season), Kinshasa was a good ten to fifteen degrees cooler than Khartoum. And so …

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Kinshasa? Where’s that?!

Posted by: Sarra Deya Ismail, Posted on: 25 September 2009 - Categories: Democratic Republic of Congo

That was the reaction I got from friends and family from my generation when I told people I was going to work in Kinshasa for two months with DFID DRC. People from older generations asked me, ‘Is that the country …

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Packing the painting

Posted by: Martin Leach, Posted on: 16 September 2009 - Categories: Africa

Don’t you get worried when you are given a leaving present as you are about to board the plane, and your suitcase is already stuffed to the gills with souvenirs? So when a friend gave me a beautiful painting at my leaving do last week, …

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Queen of health coordination leaves Mozambique

Posted by: Neil Squires, Posted on: 25 August 2009 - Categories: Africa, Health

This week we are saying goodbye to Esther Bouma, who has been responsible for coordinating the 26 different development agencies that work with the Ministry of Health here in Mozambique. Esther, pictured here at her desk in the architecturally stunning …

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Next steps for Nepal?

Posted by: Sarah Sanyahumbi, Posted on: 15 May 2009 - Categories: Nepal

I arrived in Nepal last week and the day I arrived the Prime Minister resigned! My week since has been trying to make sense of a multitude of contradictions and intensely complex politics. I’ve arrived to head up DFID’s development …

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Livelihoods on the edge

Posted by: Martin Leach, Posted on: 6 May 2009 - Categories: Africa, Economic Development

Over the Labour Day break I took a trip to Akagera National Park on the Eastern border of Rwanda, next to Tanzania. It is a large open expanse of savanna and woodland dotted with beautiful lakes. The wildlife is limited and rather hard …

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