On the face of it the headlines reporting ‘Liberia Converting Old Rubber Trees to Electricity’ and claims that this will halve the electricity cost to Liberians sounds like good news. But is is all it seems?
Paul Brians has translated Leo Africanus’ description of Timbuktu into English.
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Saving lives in Mali An article on IRIN NEWS describes changes in baby-feeding that is saving lives in Mali. In San village, 380km north of the capital Bamako, dozens of mothers in 2005 formed the “Good Mothers” group – known in the local language as Denbanyuma –to tell new mothers about the all-milk rule; 660 [Read More]