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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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Last 10 blog posts
- 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
- Cycling in Uganda
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Richard’s recent tweets
- Devastating that it’s come to this with the man who play-acts PM. Pathetic that he’s running scared from this old i… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 8 hours ago
- Javid is shamelessly distorting the Tory record of a wasted decade. People see it for what is is. But this kind of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 14 hours ago
- RT @jeremycorbyn: This says it all. https://t.co/M1Kb0QurZl 14 hours ago
- RT @Otto_English: Gogglebox viewers on the fake 50,000 nurse claim is like the best full English you've ever had. https://t.co/7uuwuzKi74 4 days ago
- RT @katehawkings: Has anybody explained *how* the Tories will ‘retain’ the 19k nurses? Will they be offered something not offered to the ot… 4 days ago
- RT @DeborahMeaden: Can I just check across the Twittersphere...anyone Trust @BorisJohnson or any of his Ministers? 4 days ago
- RT @butwhatifitsall: Don’t use my son’s death, and his and his colleague’s photos - to promote your vile propaganda. Jack stood against eve… 4 days ago
- RT @schooltruth: So Dominic Raab will apparently “step up” to PM in the short term if Johnson wins the election but loses his seat. A littl… 4 days ago
- Terrifying how easily people fall in line. Just pause! twitter.com/StephenMcGann/… 4 days ago
- RT @hilarybennmp: 1/4 Watching Boris Johnson on the Marr programme as he tries to make us forget that the Tories have been in power for nea… 4 days ago
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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
Below are the full country-by-country breakdowns of the African figures broken out of the FCO’s recent “British Behaviour Abroad” report. As explained in previous posts, the original published report contained very broad-brush data. I wanted to have the real figures, … Continue reading
