The Kinois impersonator of Sean Aylward vomits a 7-inch Ascarid!!!

Yesterday afternoon I was following on BBC the live radio coverage inFrench of the trouncing then being administered by Manchester Unitedupon Blackburn Rovers (7-1) when I saw the Kinois Impersonator of SeanAylward (I introduced this character in a recent post), who wasplaying with two of his cousins of about his age, suddenly cough upviolently and vomit on an upturned plastic stool the 7-inch deadascarid featured on the BlackBerry photo above!Happy...

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Awaiting with bated breath Prez Obama's eradication of "Killers Without Borders"

I must say off the bat that Prez Barack Obama is to be commended forhis ambitious 4-pronged plan aimed at eradicating the Lord'sResistance Army (LRA) in Central Africa.To all intents and purposes, however, the Obama Plan seems thin,impractical, unimaginative, and may as well be therefore deemed deadon arrival. For it bears, firstly, all the hallmarks of any number ofthose stillborn grand ideas on behalf of Africa the denizens of thecontinent are accustomed to seeing churn out sporadically and randomlyover the years from successive "planetarchs"...

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The new universal mantra in the DRC: Reelection of the Raïs in the first round of the 2011 presidential election

A slogan has now morphed into a mantra here. The mantra is taking theDRC by storm. It is repeated ad nauseum by stalwarts of the rulingmajority whenever they appear on TV talk-shows or at politicalgatherings.Never mind that the election is due to be held in October of next yearand therefore electoral campaigning is virtually by law out of boundat the present moment. Never mind that the Raïs hasn't privately orpublicly announced his intention of running for his own succession.These people aren't taking any chances. They've already launched apresidential...

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The Joke of Mining Ban in Eastern Congo: Gen Gabriel Amisi aka Tango-Fort seizes a Gold Mine in Eastern DRC (BBC)

As the Chief of Staff of the ground forces (infantry), Gen GabrielAmisi Kumba aka Tango-Fort is the number two most senior officer ofthe FARDC, after Gen Didier Etumba, the General Chief of Staff.With Laurent Nkunda, Gen Tango-Fort engineered the 2002 massacre inKisangani of civilians and police recruits then being trained by theex-MONUC. The massacre came in the wake of a failed uprising againstRwandan occupation of Kisangani. The uprising was carried out by aresistance group of the city's Mangobo Commune called "Etats-Unis"[United States].This...

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Erratum: Read UNDP instead of PNUD (Previous Post)

In the previous post, I mistakenly referred to the United NationsDevelopment Program (UNDP) by its French acronym PNUD (Programme desNations Unies pour le Développement).The Human Development Index I mentioned is to be accessed by followingthis link: http://hdr.undp.org/en/***(Sent via BlackBer...

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The Kinois Impersonator of an American kid named Sean Aylward

You'd think this little Kinois is an American kid. His tank-top reads:"What's not to love?" And his baseball cap, worn backward, has a big"S" written in front.More importantly, on the inside of the baseball cap, someone--the momof its first rightful owner undoubtedly--has inscribed with a blue penthe name: "Sean Aylward." In fact, this Kinois impersonator of SeanAylward is wearing from head to toe second-hand gear imported from theU.S.Second-hand...

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A cell site in the middle of C.S. Clessidra ain't frying kids' brains after all...

This photo shows Avenue de la Gombe, off Avenue de Libération quaAvenue Mulele Pierre qua Avenue du 24 Novembre qua (simply) 24straight ahead. Btw, Armand Tungulu pulled his ill-fated stunt at theRaïs not far from here on that very artery.Avenue de la Gombe, in the eponymous commune downtown, boasts theHalle de la Gombe that houses the French Cultural Center, and is oneof the city's spots with the highest density of private schools permeter square.On...

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