Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Twelve members of the Eritrean national football team are missing


Twelve members of the Eritrean national team (the starting squad is pictured above) have disappeared while in Kenya for a regional tournament. They are presumed to have gone into hiding to escape from the oppressive regime of President Isaias Afewerki.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

What I have been reading lately #2


To Dakar and Back - 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle

by Lawrence Hacking with Wil De Clercq


I just started this book. It's about racing in the Paris-Dakar in 2001. The rider/author is Canadian. It has some pictures, unlike Ed McCabe's Against Gravity - From Paris to Dakar in the world's most dangerous race, which I read a few years ago. The pictures help. McCabe rode in an automobile and is an American, so that is another difference.
"Hockey ought to be sternly forbidden, as it is not only annoying but dangerous." Halifax Morning Sun, quoted in Michael McKinley's Hockey - A People's History