Oct 31, 2009 | Atlantic Monthly
Ivory Coast = France = Japan, in language habits at lea
In this scene from Dan Chaon's very bleak but memorable unreliable-narrator / mistaken-identity novel Await Your Reply , a young American woman named Lucy goes into a hair salon in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. The country is French speaking, and Lucy is apprehensive about communicating.
Cost-effective ways to reduce loss to follow-up in ART programmes identified
Measures to reduce loss to follow-up in antiretroviral treatment programmes such as abolishing user fees, paying transportation costs, providing meals and improving staff training would be cost-effective even if they prevented less than half of patients from failing to return to the clinic, according to projections based on data from Cote d'Ivoire.
Cote d'Ivoire: Ivorian Parties Continuing to Rearm Despite Embargo, Says UN Report
Both sides in Cte d'Ivoire, which has been divided for more than seven years between the Government-controlled south and the rebel Forces Nouvelles-held north, are violating the arms embargo imposed on the country, according to a new United Nations report.
ITB Asia daily report ~ day 2.
Lufthansa builds its Asian profile, Indonesia goes for 'Affordable Luxury', Asia turning to 'Resilient' youth and educational travel, preserving brand integrity in a price-led market and more..... Lufthansa Builds its Asian Profile and Commits to FlyNet German flag carrier, Lufthansa marked a significant milestone.
Africa choking on West's waste
It started with a story about nothing. Last week, Britain's Guardian newspaper posted a short, vague article on its website about a question being asked in Parliament.
UN envoy to Cote d'Ivoire urges compromise over voters list publication
The special representative of the UN secretary general to Cote d'Ivoire, Choi Young-jin, is calling for "compromise" for the publication of the provisional voters list as time is running out for the planned presidential election on Nov.
Agriculture-Cote D'Ivoire: Small-scale Pineapple Growers Want More Support
The cost of inputs has gone up, price paid for pineapple down: Ivorien growers are in a jam.
The Alta Group Expands EMEA Team With New Paris-Based Associate
The Alta Group has strengthened its French office and appointed Francois-Xavier Meurville as an associate in its EMEA Region.
United Kingdom: 'Super injunction' lifted on Cote d'Ivoire waste dumping report
Freedom of Speech , Cyber-Activism , Environment , Law , Media , Industry Languages: English Full Category List Excerpt Trafigura, the British oil trader, has finally released The Guardian newspaper from a secret injunction preventing it from reporting the so-called Minton Report, after an extraordinary week of online activity.
Toxic Secrets Revealed After Gag Lifted
Lawyers for an oil trading firm have abandoned attempts to stop the British press running a story about the dumping of toxic waste in west Africa.
Minton report: Carter-Ruck give up bid to keep Trafigura study secret
Just after 7.30pm Carter-Ruck, libel lawyers for Trafigura, wrote a letter to the Guardian which said the newspaper should regard itself as "released forthwith" from any reporting restrictions.
Twitter helped quash injunction, UK newspaper says
Article:Twitter helped quash injunction, UK newspaper says:/g/a/2009/10/14/urnidgns002570F3005978D80025764F004ED448.DTL Article:Twitter helped quash injunction, UK newspaper says:/g/a/2009/10/14/urnidgns002570F3005978D80025764F004ED448.DTL 09:07 PDT -- A prominent British newspaper is hailing Twitter supporters for helping quash an injunction that ...
'Guardian' claims 'gag' victory
The Guardiannewspaper in Britain said it is now free to report on a parliamentary question relating to oil company Trafigura, which last month offered to pay compensation to 31,000 victims of pollution caused by waste dumped in Ivory Coast.
Trafigura tops list of Twitter trending topics
Trafigura, one of the world's largest oil traders, was the most used word on the micro-blogging website Twitter this morning.
A picture window into our lost past
I swore that I would never write another column about yet another book from Arcadia Publishing, an outfit that has so far published over 5,000 local photo history books.
Cote d'Ivoire's president to run in Nov. 29 elections
Cote d'Ivoire's President Laurent Gbagbo will be a candidate in the forthcoming presidential elections set for Nov.
The following post is by a hedge fund manager friend of DB who shall remain nameless.
UN population fund in Cote d'Ivoire decries middle school pregnancies
The resident representative of the United Nations Population Fund , Philipppe Delane, decries the pregnancy cases in middle schools in the west African country.
Cote d'Ivoire: UN And France Insist On Poll Plan
The UN and France have warned Cote d'Ivoire of dire political consequences if the presidential elections billed for November 29, failed to take place.
No 'moral comfort' seen in toxic dumping settlement
A European oil trader was ordered to pay $49 million to thousands of West Africans who were sickened and scarred when toxic wastes being shipped for the company were illegally offloaded in densely populated Abidjan , capital city of the Ivory Coast.
Once hailed as a model of stability, Ivory Coast has slipped into the kind of internal strife that has plagued many African countries.
Pouring oil on troubled waters
The Guardian newspaper has evidence of a cover-up by the British oil trader, Trafigura, of a massive pollution disaster in Cote d'Ivoire three years ago.
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