In 2006, there was a European Union Force (EUFOR) deployment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in support of the United Nations election-monitoring mission. To reassure the Congolese that EUFOR came in peace, the EU commissioned a 5 minute video which was broadcast on national television in the DRC. The video has to be…
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Downsizing for Africa
I’m in the process of downsizing my blog, in preparation for my trip to Africa. I had originally wanted to make my site as multimedia-rich as I could, with lashings of audiovisual material. That plan, however, was cooked up before I saw the internet statistics for Ethiopia. There are only 360’000 internet users in Ethiopia,…
My Europe Week
Irish Blogger Stephen Spillane – working with Bloggingportal.eu (which I help edit) – has launched a new initiative to promote discussion about the future of Europe. It’s called “My Europe Week” (hashtage #myeurope on Twitter) and you can read about it on the website here. Basically, the idea is to celebrate “Europe Day” next week…