A nice piece on Africa’s furthest-east territory, by Nick Redmayne. Will independence for Mauritius’s smaller island ever be feasible?
Rodrigues on iPlayer, 28 July 2011
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This site accompanies the travel guide The Rough Guide to First-Time Africa. It's not an alternative to the book, but includes samples of the contents, a blog page and the opportunity to comment on posts and pages and put questions to the authors.
Static web pages ("The book", "The authors" etc) are tabbed up on the left beneath the photo of Lamu waterfront. Blog posts all appear on the "Home" page, at the far left, with the most recent post at the top. Each blog post is tagged with subject and/or country categories, allowing you to access the posts you're interested in using the Category dropdown menu, below.
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- British tourist, visitor and resident deaths in Africa: 325 people in 12 months out of more than 3 million British visitors
- Surprised 2174 Brits died abroad of “unknown causes” in 2010: new figures from the FCO
- Accidents abroad: Britons killed in Africa
- Britons murdered in Africa: very few indeed
- Improved security in the Sahel: military escorts dropped in northern Niger
- Rodrigues on the radio
- KCB Safari Rally 2011 – take care on those roads!
- The Lake of Stars Festival
- Zambia travel update
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Richard’s recent tweets
- Great to see dramatic soc changes happening in EAfrica even if some institutions - e.g. rule of law, rights of indi… twitter.com/i/web/status/8… 1 day ago
- RT @SeaninKenya: @British_Airways please can you confirm if BA64 and BA65 into and out of Nairobi will operate today? 1 day ago
- Remarkably peaceful atmosphere here at the BA desks at Nairobi airport. No staff at all. All day. https://t.co/Dvo0b7xoJQ 1 day ago
- Maybe a mistake to leave the wonderful @SaruniCamp in Lemek Conservancy #MaasaiMara only to arrive in #JKIANairobi… twitter.com/i/web/status/8… 1 day ago
- Great & pleasant surprise to fly back to Nairobi with 2 female pilots. 10% of @Flysafarilink pilots - 40% to go! https://t.co/kfu5fXp33b 1 day ago
- On a day when people are utterly obsessed by meaningless horror, a tweet that demonstrates the beauty of twitter. T… twitter.com/i/web/status/8… 6 days ago
- Tracking rhinos on foot with Saruni in Northern Kenya. Unforgettable. https://t.co/QwumWGerPA 1 week ago
- There's only one place in the world where breakfast looks like this! #GiraffeManor #TembeaKenya #WhyILoveKenya https://t.co/Gnbz5x18B9 2 weeks ago
- Back in Kenya for @ExpertAfrica and the road improvement in Nairobi is really making a difference! #TembeaKenya… twitter.com/i/web/status/8… 2 weeks ago
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