Poor Sheba! These past two weeks have seen more mishaps that I would have expected in a year! It’s not always easy being a bold 4 month old Rhodesian Ridgeback in Africa with less immunity that most of her fellow creatures… It all began one Friday evening after dark, when Sheba was still out playing [...]

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During the heat of the crisis, the local Swedish newspaper Hallands Nyheter interviewed me about The Famine Scam and wrote an article about it, which was recently added to the web. Published on March 5th, the article is entitled Falkenbergare kritiska till bilden av svält i Niger. For all those who do not understand Swedish, [...]

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Cash handouts – the solution for West Africa or another way of keeping the aid circus running? IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks), which is part of the UN but supposedly editorially independent, recently published an article about aid and cash handouts, entitled “West Africa: Do high food prices warrant a cash response?” Experts say many [...]

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I was just informed that the day before yesterday, an ASAPI project car was stolen in the Zinder area, and its driver killed. His body was found yesterday in the outskirts of town, lacking an eye, the nose and a part of the vein on his lower leg. The car itself was eventually found (todayn) [...]

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If I knew about a book called “Where there is no vet”, I would buy it immediately, because the more you know how to do yourself in Niger, the better. After three days of not eating, I knew something was seriously ill with Aslan, and so I called up our family vet (who’s in Niamey [...]

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There’s a fresh debate going on in Norway right, touching right into the heart of aid politics. It all started with a chronicle I wrote that was published in Bergens Tidende on April 28th, entitled Be om unnskyldning, Egeland. Here are a few quotes from the chronicle that translates to ‘Egeland, you owe an apology‘: [...]

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I am not your typical tree lover, but I work for an organisation that helps people in the northernmost sub-Saharan agricultural zone establish drought-tolerant trees and bushes that bear fruit even in times of need – and I just happen to love my job so very, very much. Knowing the amazing consequences that such long-term [...]

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Yesterday afternoon, Anette and I were figuring out how we wanted our trees to grow in the garden, when I reached out for the wrong branch. A wasp came out of nowhere and attacked me, stinging me at least twice (although it felt like five…). Thinking it was a bee (we have a bee nest [...]

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Having read through many of the articles of the June issue of the NewAfrican magazine that my friend brought to me this weekend, I am left with a heavy feeling, wondering why the world is such a sad place. Copyright Eden Foundation At first glance, Stella Orakwue seems like any educated young author who is [...]

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Copyright Eden Foundation 2005 I just read a post today about a journalist in Uganda who was coerced into paying a woman she had interviewed for an article although she felt it went against journalistic work ethics. At first she was reluctant, but her Ugandan colleague seemed to have valid point: “”You’re going to get [...]

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I am heartbroken. We were informed last night that my mother’s cancer has returned, and what seemed to be a somewhat stable situation has been shredded to pieces in a fortnight. Tears are flowing constantly, but I do not expect them to stop. I love my mother so much. I lift my head high and [...]

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