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My Kids Are Getting Manure This Christmas

My husband will probably get a donkey and my in-laws certainly deserve a camel, they've been through a lot this year. I'm of course shopping with Oxfam this Christmas season and their list of funusual gifts just keeps growing every year. My children may not appreciate a pile of manure in their ...

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About.co...Visitors — 23 hours ago

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Air Travel Around East Africa

Regional flights in East Africa have always added a significant expense to travel itineraries and to make things worse, the schedules are often sporadic. But despite the suspension of Tanzania's national airline (Air Tanzania) last December, things are looking up. Precision Air seems to have mo...

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About.co...Visitors — 3 days ago

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Follow Team USA in the 2010 World Cup

The 2010 World Cup will take place next summer (11 June - 11 July) in South Africa. Team USA will be participating and if you'd like to cheer them on in the world's most exciting sporting event, you should plan your trip now. FIFA, the organization that runs the World Cup tournament, has alloca...

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About.co...Visitors — 5 days ago

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December Festivals and Events in Africa

If you're planning to be in Africa this Christmas you may be wondering whether to pack your stocking and santa hat. In most cases it would be entirely appropriate to do so since there will be more than 300,000 Christians celebrating along with you. It's not quite as commercial in Africa as in o...

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About.co...Visitors — November 02

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A Crash of Rhinos

I've always had the sneaking suspicion that animal group names are more poetic than scientific. Come to find out, that many of them actually are made up by some eccentric lady more than 500 years ago. Dame Juliana Berners wrote an essay on hunting in the Book of St Albans in 1486. In the essay ...

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About.co...Visitors — October 30

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Blog of the Week -- The Advocacy Project

Since bad news is news, and Africa has its fair share of that, we often end up skimming the headlines and never really get to know much about the individuals affected by war, famine, poverty and disease. Most poor or marginalized people have stories that are seldom heard, they have no voice. Ad...

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About.co...Visitors — October 28