Africa: Couple of Things

Along the lines of the previous post, once you've used the Global Rich List to see how you're doing, consider:

We once met a Canadian man in Johannesburg. He had been contributing to the cause, working with the U.N. in southern Congo and now he meant to earn it back, in private business in the Copper Belt around Lubumbashi, in Katanga Province near Zambia. He was bringing his wife to approve the deal, and he promised they would live well, right on a golf course.

This Reuters article suggests he was right. It says that some 50 million of Congo's 67 million people live on less than two dollars a day, but in Lubumbashi,

"Membership at the governor's new gym costs $300 (193 pounds) a month, the gastronomic menu at the new $350-a-night hotel is going down a treat and traffic guided by lemon yellow-uniformed police runs smoothly under sunny skies."

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And just a quick note - spend a few minutes with the wildlife portfolio of Tobias Seiderer. Some outstanding stuff. This photo of one of the tree climbing lions in the Ishasha Wilderness in Uganda, is from EarthPhotos.com's Uganda, Animals & Wildlife and HDR Galleries, but Tobi's been there too. Here's his Flickr Photostream.

 

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