Posts Tagged ‘Kigali’
Farm aid from space
This is the title of my newest Christian Science Monitor article, which is actually about weather-indexed insurance programs in sub-Saharan Africa. All kinds of cool science-and-tech stuff has come together in the last five years to allow big insurance companies to offer super-small insurance policies — low-premiums, comparatively low-payout, to the usually poor, always vulnerable [...]
How Obama looks to Rwanda
Here’s a video some folks I knew in Rwanda put together about Kigali’s reaction to Obama’s election:
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No diplomat left behind
It’s been a tough few days here for the UN Security Council. All they wanted to do was come to Rwanda, and then they got shot at.
First, the context: Members of the Council are on their annual tour of “African hotspots,” as the wires like to say. Rwanda’s still on that list, despite [...]
Good thing he didn’t ask for the Grey Poupon
There’s a lux coffee shop in town called Bourbon Coffee. It has wireless internet and good music and pricey food and beverages. It is classier than Starbucks but somehow leaves me feeling as sad. But it’s a good idea, of course: in a country now so famous for its coffee, not to [...]
“So…you’re white too?” “Yeah…” “Huh. Me too.” “Yeah…”
I went to an international food fair at the U.S. ambassador’s residence today. I didn’t meet the ambassador,and I stupidly did not take advantage of the use-the-restroom excuse to see a part of the house. But the grass was really nice.
There were eight or ten tents, a la a New York City street [...]
A short, short, short story
A friend has a link on her blog to another interesting blog–this all sounds so incestuous–called Six Sentences. Just what it sounds: Stories, about anything, that are only six sentences long.
I decided to try my hand at it, with words from a woman I met months ago, that have stuck with me… I also [...]
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