The AfricaNews articles of Emille

  1. Unfolding Travel Challenges to Northern Kenya

    18-01-2011 06:24 door Emille
    - As the driver left the tarmac highway to join the dusty slip road, I wondered whether I really wanted to do this. I was now leaving a little known town in western Kenya called Kitale and despite the fact that I had already covered hundreds of kilometres; my journey was only just beginning. The dust road was rough and the atmosphere a mixture of hot and dry. The terrain was very rough and I could taste the dust in my mouth on several occasions, I remember thinking the bus would roll over. The driver maintained a constant high speed despite the fact that the terrain was not user friendly. Reading the concern written all over my face, the young man seated next to me tried to reassure m…

  2. Unfolding Travel Challenges to Northern Kenya

    18-01-2011 06:23 door Emille
    - As the driver left the tarmac highway to join the dusty slip road, I wondered whether I really wanted to do this. I was now leaving a little known town in western Kenya called Kitale and despite the fact that I had already covered hundreds of kilometres; my journey was only just beginning. The dust road was rough and the atmosphere a mixture of hot and dry. The terrain was very rough and I could taste the dust in my mouth on several occasions, I remember thinking the bus would roll over. The driver maintained a constant high speed despite the fact that the terrain was not user friendly. Reading the concern written all over my face, the young man seated next to me tried to reassure m…

  3. MEMOIRS FROM RWANDA

    20-03-2009 09:16 door Emille
    - As my parents, siblings and I gathered round in our small village hut, we quietly listened to the radio. This is what we had done every day for the past one week for it was our only source of information in this remote part of the world. You see my father, was a highly respected, senior ranked army officer. After training in Belgium, he returned home fell in love with my mother after which they got married and had nine children all together. Events of the last one week however, had been beyond my wildest dreams. I am from a good family. My siblings and I had been brought up in the city. Our parents ensured they took us to proper schools, they raised us to be upright citizens and we had our…

  4. KENYA; FAMINE BITES OR IS IT GLOBAL WARMING

    13-01-2009 22:02 door Emille
    - Global warming is a term that has been hot on the lips of many people all over the world. Many have heard about it but do not exactly know what it means, others have heard about it and have made it their business to gather in depth knowledge about it and then left it at that , the best individuals however, are those that heard about it, found out what it means its causes, consequences and are now a part of worldwide campaigns and movements to raise awareness, educate the masses and begin to put in place changes desperately needed to avert this global crisis these are the few people who have decided to be the change they want to see. Global warming by definition is the increase in the a…