On the plane from Nairobi to Djibouti I read in ‘The Standard’ newspaper of 5 April that officials and supporters of the political party ODM-Kenya (the Orange Democratic Movement – Kenya) had stormed the offices of the country’s Electoral Commission demanding the registration of the orange as the party’s symbol. However the ODMPK (the Orange Democratic Movement Party of Kenya) has already registered the symbol and has vowed not to give it up. Their lawyer said ODM-Kenya had many options, and that there were many other fruits ‘like the avocado, guava, apple or lemon’ that ODM-Kenya could use instead.
Honestly, I didn’t make that up. Thank goodness the politicians in Senegal seem to be a little more concerned with the real issues facing their population.
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- Single British woman with a passion for travel. After twenty years working in the City of London on fraud investigation for a major accounting firm I finally made the leap and halved my salary to work for a development NGO in West Africa. Just didn't want to be part of such a materialist world any more. I also care passionately about the environment and may still get to do something in the conservation field one day. Personality? Shy in big groups though talkative and confident with small numbers of people; enjoy doing things with others, but would rather do my own thing alone than go along with a crowd doing something that doesn't interest me; in some ways a bit of a non-conformist but ultimately not a rule-breaker (happy to travel alone to strange and dangerous places but get jittery if someone breaks the speed limit); politically both red and green.
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