Mercenary in Somalia: killing a journalist worth 30 U.S. dollars
The victory of violence in Somalia is reflected in the numerous mercenaries who live to kill journalists on request, Actually I started researching a year ago.
Africa
Live the adventure of Africa. Javier Reverte and Javier Brandoli among others take you to the black continent, from deserts to jungles. We have distilled for you the spell of Africa.
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Un malquerer en Kikuyu
He lived in haste and with open eyes, traveled the roads without fear; the red dust stained my clothes and I adorned lashes. Gobbled new words, engulfing the pain of others, gobbled gobbled injustice and hunger. View spectacular sunrises and sunsets disappointing it became routine, I learned a lot about illegal drugs, prostitution and murder. I thought that life was. I thought that was enough.
Tierra de Brujas, Mary Ferreira
There are times Earth Bruges in reaching smell everything and you have to separate some pages, breathe and do an exercise of memory is to remind humans. I read a few books on Africa and, course, I have never faced such a work. Perhaps because none of the authors I have read I could tell in the first person what tells Maria. She did not run away from Makuyu, as we would almost all, She stood there hating and loving the land
Voces de Somalia: ablation
At 14 years they married and had to stop studying. At 16, She gave birth to a girl in a hospital in Nairobi. She wept inconsolably for days. 'I wanted to have a child- repeated tearfully. "My daughter will suffer so much! Sorry, sorry, sorry…", she told her baby.
Breast dry belly Fatuma
For Mama Fatuma was not a happy day: her husband had to divorce her. He married he does 25 years, but she had stopped menstruating few months ago and her husband decided to marry a fertile woman.
The African Macondo: Javier painful victory Brandoli
Habla Javier de su experiencia africana como "una maravillosa derrota" and I rather think it is a painful victory, that of a guy who loved so intensely Africa ended aching Africa. And we with him.
Kenya: the charm of diamonds on water
Every time I immerse myself in this turquoise sea feel an unusual pleasure and I feel that the universe is giving me something, a caress sea, of silence, of peace.
Liquid water on Mars. Now
There is liquid water on Mars. Now. Flowing, as flowing streams in the Sierra de Guadarrama or streams in the Pyrenees, or at least that it flows in our imaginary, the same in which the Martians are green, They have antennas and hands with three fingers and suction cups to the end.
Hell beauty of the Turkana
The Magic caldera of a volcano covered with vegetation and water, warlike tribes of yesteryear, a desert and a lake where there should be no life, an old German who unknowingly commits suicide and a mythical track by passing the great voyages of Africa. The Turkana and its surroundings are not a place over the planet.
Accommodation most charming southeastern Africa
One goes through dozens of hotels where you sleep and leave a piece of your time. Most are used and march, even very good. It is not a question of quantity or quality, It is magic that brings you back to places.
Maurice Island: no news from Africa
The world seemed to swing in a calm without fanfare in which even the storms seemed programmed to not disturb excessively. I have written many times, sometimes with some literature, odors from place. There is nothing poetic, Mauricio smelled as sugar is down in some areas of the car window. It was a sweet smell and violent.
Around the World 3 minutes
They return as lightning images from those days, snippets of Adventure, landscapes of the world. I try to build the wall of sensations, but it is impossible to order the chaos of a two-year journey, because the heart is not made to hold so many emotions.
Jaguar legend light
The legend of the distant hills humid jungle of Oaxaca says, "is half man and half beast. You do not hear when it arrives. The lands of the people belong to Lachixila grandchildren grandfather jaguar "
Kenya: Bye Bye Obama
Obama was, and traffic returned to the streets invade. Jams turned to despair anyone and US flags began to disappear gradually.
A trip to Tunisia despite attacks
[st] I traveled to Tunisia a month ago. Just one month after the attack on El Bardo Museum,…
Dadaab: the ignored lament refugees
"Suddenly one day you will wake up and you realize you've been twelve years thinking that being a refugee is temporary. Twelve years", reflects bitterly Halim from Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in Africa.
Kruger: shattered the night sky
Suddenly, I felt the wind on his face shaking. He got a smell of wet earth, calving ground for, a night sky torn. I noticed in the distance were some rays. They seemed lost, distant, unattainable. Soon it was also the sound. You could hear the thunder from the horizon. He quickly became far closer. The rain began to unload with force. The air was heavy with the smell of entrails. And suddenly, in the midst of those hard days, difficult, occurred sublime, magic.
Aberdares: the hotel-tree crowned queen
Getting up early in the morning turned into the sovereign of one of the first powers of the world is an experience available to very few mortals, but doing more than 7.000 miles of Buckingham Palace, in the middle of the Aberdare Mountains Kenya, is indeed a privilege.
Madagascar, Coast to coast
Sounds Remote, a cartoon film and impossible animals. Is that, and also a little touristy island country African sap that oozes sweetened with Asian touches
What you are behind the terrorist attacks of Al Shabab in Kenya?
The terrible attacks by Somali terrorists are favored by the Kenyan police corruption and by an ongoing conflict of commercial interests between the two countries. Kenya, while, threatens to deport 450.000 refugees among whom half are women and children. Aims to close the Dadaab refugee camp.
Garissa: what has not been told of the attack
Garissa is also what we have not counted. It's that selling military information for a small fee, without any shame. Or unscrupulous practitioners who photographed the bodies of the dead and sold the photos.
Garissa: That was the killing (last minute)
Karimi, one of the survivors who remained in hiding for hours, has recounted how the terrorists offered to be released and those students who believed them and left the room were killed.
Chronicle from Garissa, the terrrorista bombing which no one speaks
I'm in a hotel in Garissa and I am one of the few foreign field. 147 dead in Kenya and what. 147 dead in Kenya and our dignity in tatters, friends. 147 dead and fear remains. And the inhabitants of Garissa running down the road to get home before curfew. And terror. And the constant threat. And we sleep quiet today because today, this time, us we have not done pupa
Charlie Hebdo and bougainvillea
Internet said they were well and safe, Some residents of the city were able to alert them, in time to take refuge with other Christians in the military barracks in the city, that the worst was over in a few days and could take a plane bound for Togo, A Burkina that a Benin. During the following days the people of the city was dedicated to bring food and save some belongings of the Mission.
