Amin F. Abari 1 Bradley Alan Hodges 0 Call the game because of darkness and go home for cookies and milk or manioc and malumba. ... ...
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bobutne
Jan 13, 2007 2:14 am
http://outside.away.com/outside/destinations/200701/africa-gabon- national-parks-1.html "LOOKING UP AT THE FAT, GRAY SKY, it was hard to tell when, or even if,...
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bobutne
Jan 31, 2007 9:09 pm
http://english.people.com.cn/200701/24/eng20070124_344453.html "Gabon and Morocco will stage a joint medico-military maneuver in June to benefit people in...
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bobutne
Jan 31, 2007 9:16 pm
China will send 44 agricultural experts and technicians to Gabon to help small-scale farmers there improve crop and animal production, fish farming and...
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Gary Marsh
m6jockey
Jan 31, 2007 9:29 pm
Bob, Souns like a Chinese Peace Corps to me. GM ... _________________________________________________________________ Get live scores and news about your team:...
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Darcy Meijer
darcy.meijer
Jan 31, 2007 11:39 pm
This is great. Food is the way to begin. What is it in the U.S. that prevents food from getting to all who need it? Shouldn't this be a no-brainer, given our...
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bobutne
Feb 18, 2007 9:20 pm
By Kim Willsher in Paris, Sunday Telegraph A crisis of confidence caused by corruption scandals, French support of dictatorial regimes and a lack of political...
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Darcy Meijer
darcy.meijer
Feb 24, 2007 9:39 pm
Hi Bob! When you were in Gabon, did all you guys ever go to a bar in Franceville called "Marianne's"? In the 80s it was the place to meet when the construction...
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bobutne
Feb 26, 2007 1:18 am
BELINGA, Gabon, Feb 26 (Reuters) By Antoine Lawson - The pygmies of Gabon's lush northeast equatorial forests may soon be learning Chinese. Buried deep in...
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Darcy Meijer
darcy.meijer
Feb 26, 2007 2:59 pm
Hi Bob, Big news! What do you think the pygmies think about this? ... From: gabondiscussion@yahoogroups.com on behalf of bobutne Sent: Sun 2/25/2007 8:18 PM ...
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Brad Hodges
niakurondi
Feb 26, 2007 4:32 pm
I recall seeing groups of Chinese workers when I used to pass in front of the new Senate during its construction. I also remember when the Chinese president...
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bobutne
Feb 27, 2007 3:32 am
The forest people have largely left the interior bush to follow the timber companies or moved to be around the towns that dot Gabon's major roads. I doubt if...
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bobutne
Feb 28, 2007 7:01 pm
You may recall that several years ago Micael Fay reported in the National Geographic about his trek across the entire country of Gabon. In the latest National...
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Darcy Meijer
darcy.meijer
Feb 28, 2007 8:29 pm
Hi Bob, I'd like to include this information in the April Letter if I could. I'll cite your discussion site, of course. Darcy ... From:...
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bobutne
Mar 6, 2007 1:05 am
Committee to Protect Journalists (New York) March 5, 2007 The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed that authorities in the capital, Libreville, have...
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bobutne
Mar 6, 2007 3:39 pm
On the other side of that coin- http://www.cpj.org/news/2007/americas/usa05mar07na.html...
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dupont3@...
dupont6
Mar 6, 2007 10:26 pm
Wow That is a big flipside! Imagine being held(tortured) at Guantanamo Bay for 5 years just because you are a journalist covering an illegal war! I support...
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bobutne
Mar 10, 2007 1:55 am
China in Africa: It's (Still) the Governance, Stupid Akwe Amosu | March 9, 2007. Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org Deep inside the tropical forest of Gabon,...
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lindsgabon
Mar 15, 2007 6:40 pm
I was in Fougamou 2003-2005. Were those two schools right next to eachother? There are no tennis courts now, so I am not sure where you are talking about. I...
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lindsgabon
Mar 15, 2007 7:35 pm
i will post some pics in a couple of weeks. i'm going back to fougamou the first week of april (i still live in gabon). so i will take lots of pictures for...
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Bradley Alan Hodges
niakurondi
Mar 15, 2007 7:36 pm
Hi Lindsey and Dale. (Mue dikengui?) I always thought the school that Peace Corps built in Fougamou became part of the Lycée Technique on the south end of...
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bobutne
Mar 15, 2007 9:24 pm
The hotel in Fougamou in the 1964 era was named Case Passage. Only problem was that to book a night at the hotel, we volunteers had to get an OK from the local...
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Lindsay Partusch
lindsaypartusch
Mar 15, 2007 9:58 pm
Hi guys, It has been fun to read all of these posts. I too was in Fougamou with Lindsay. The basketball court is the tennis court, there are still posts on the...
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Steve Bean
stevebean718
Mar 16, 2007 2:49 pm
And it wasn't even a hotel - There was a Caisse de Passage in every town of any size, a hold-over from the Colonial days - It was a building with two or three...
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lindsgabon
Mar 16, 2007 3:32 pm
I'll take as many pictures of everything that I can. Like I said, I'll be in Fougamou the first week of April. I'll be there for one week (it's our spring...
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Lindsay Partusch
lindsaypartusch
Mar 16, 2007 3:41 pm
When we finished our service, a gaboprix (grocery store) had also opened, and sells goodies like cheese and ice cream. We were very excited about that ...
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Steve Bean
stevebean718
Mar 16, 2007 4:20 pm
Yes, they knew it was a PC house because of the activity as well as the American trucks with the 'shaking hands' on the doors - That was a good time - When I...
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fougamou@...
fougamou
Mar 17, 2007 2:10 am
Lindsay, I would love to see some pictures. I was in Fougamou 93-95 as an English teacher. I lived in a wood house that had been a PCV house through a number...
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fougamou@...
fougamou
Mar 17, 2007 2:40 am
Tom, You were there that much before me??? (I was there 93-95) You left some reputation in Fougamou -- people spoke of you often. (It was actually funny -- it...
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Brad Hodges
niakurondi
Mar 17, 2007 7:15 am
Tom, I was in Fougajazz from 2002 to 2003, and got the impression that you were THE PCV posted in Fougamou by which all others should be measured. I used to go...
