Elections and Landslides (one might hope)

Alright, for all you democracy-philes out there, all reports from Bukavu indicate that the run-off elections for the presidency have passed without major incident. I’ve heard of tension in the deep south of this province, and country wide, as expected, Kinshasa is tense (we withdrew all Kin staff to Bukavu), and there were a few delays/problems in Bunia and the Ituri district.








So, all that to say…things are quiet, no emergencies, and even if there were, security precautions at present dictate that these emergencies must kept to within a days drive (aller/retour)! So this week, I’ll share with you all a little miscellanea, a touch of trivia…Congo river vs Darwin’s nightmare….Kierkegaard’s brainbeats…the positive attributes of cholera outbreaks…Gustav the gator…and new technology less attention.

Let me leave you this week with a picture of the destruction caused these last few days by heavy rains south of Uvira…I haven’t seen the film footage, but from what ACTED caught on tape, the river/runoff from the haut-plateau rose to 3m above normal…the rocks it brought down the mountain…some well over 2m in diameter, are spread across, ontop, and all the way down the main north south axis for nearly 100m—a fact not evident in the pictures….no road access south of uvira for the next 2 months at least.

Happy Monday
C

pics--the rock slide that wrecked my week's plans...1/3 prov now no longer accessible by road....a bunch of IDP students super happy learning super things, while their super parents go off to less than super fields to cultivate in relative insecurity.