NZEYIMANA Emery Fabrice

I hope this guy gets enough funding to spread his products all over Africa. Yes, only home-made items will increase the bargaining power of African countries.

[code]Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts.

"It took me eight months to build this one," he said, sweat pouring from his forehead as he filled the radiator of the banana yellow four-seater which he now parks in the grounds of his university.

The chopper, which has flown briefly on six occasions, is made from scrap aluminium that Abdullahi bought with the money he makes from computer and mobile phone repairs, and a donation from his father, who teaches at Kano's Bayero university.

It is powered by a second-hand 133 horsepower Honda Civic car engine and kitted out with seats from an old Toyota saloon car. Its other parts come from the carcass of a Boeing 747 which crashed near Kano some years ago.[/code]

I am sure those neo-cons will start saying negative things like “no one will be allowed to use something made locally” , “we need to have it certified by European engineers” and other “empty words” that are common from African politicians. They should help him reach good levels of reliability instead of discouraging him at the beginning.

And those who gain (mostly through bribes) by importing will make sure that those corrupt politicians halt this guy.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hV0rzEDq7TWnlm7tMmr2zeQmiRig
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071021/od_afp/nigeriahelicopteroffbeat

Yes Ubuntu Desktop 7.04 has been very useful for my children but when I tried to upgrade today to the latest 7.10 (gutsy), it appeared time consuming. It’s like when I was configuring a shared EPSON multi-function printer.

• 5 hours process (the initial download was very fast less than 10 minutes at 2.2MBps)
• Too many questions (like REPLACE this or that file, …, blah blah blah)
• It hanged once and had to restart the computer and the upgrade process

If I had known (it is not mentioned on the Ubuntu website), I would have completely erased the machine (after backing up the important files) and done a fresh install. I am sure it would have taken less than 30 minutes.

I still love it because my children no longer download and install all the junkies that pop-up on the screen. Yes, I told them that they should read first whatever comes on the screen before clicking but they probably have no time to read all those confusing stuff that come up while using this or that site.
My children computer now runs on Ubuntu Desktop 7.04

RwandaTel, the Rwanda government owned telecoms company is to be sold again. This time, not to a “virtual” american company, but to LAP Green Network, a Libyan based (or rooted) company.

It’s true that I am not a big fan of selling strategic companies to non-rwandans, but I will congratulate LAP Green Network for this new expansion. I also hope that it will treat Rwandans as brothers and sisters and thus bring them more development and funds.

By the way, I have tried to locate websites that are owned by this company without success. I will continue and possibly post what I find here.

Another serious incident involving a Murokore pastor (EDIT: original link seems dead: try here). Religion has been used to oppress people for so long. Religion has been used to explain why the colonization of Africa was necessary. Religion has been used to advance the beauty of Apartheid. Religion has been used to enslave black africans and force them into a life that still has negative effects until today. And religion is still used to extort poor Africans. When will this end? Maybe not tomorrow, maybe never.

No wonder why there are so many pastors and fighting each other (even though they say or are said to use the same book in their preaching). No wonder why they are born everywhere everyday in the great lakes region. They get too much money.

News from Rwanda and Uganda alone are shocking. One day is a pastor who defiled young students who are to go to school in order to put the holy spirit in her body, another day is a pastor who uses electro-shocks to prove that he is in direct contact with the holy spirit, a new day comes with a pastor who impregnated a girl younger than his own daughters, another day is a pastor from South Africa trying to fool us by proving the innocence of the rapist pastor without even waiting for the trial to conclude … the list is long.

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It’s good news Mobile phone companies are scrapping Roaming charges. I even wonder if they had many customers paying roaming fees as most people I have seen had SIM cards for every country they visit. As cars moved to the left when crossing the Gatuna (Katuna in ruganda) border, phones users switched their SIM cards.

I remember that the MTN Uganda SIM card received signal up to around 5 kilometers inside Rwanda (from the Gatuna border) but the MTN Rwanda signal was not strong enough to be used after crossing the border.

Let’s hope other business institutions such as Banks will follow the example set by MTN. And the Internet providers should realize the benefits of interconnection without waiting for EASSY and/or other super-regional initiatives that may end up dying before their birth certificate is signed.

By the way, when will Ugandans start driving on the RIGHT ? (Should I say the right side not the wrong one? )

Umunyamakuru wo kuri Televiziyo yitwa TV4 yo muri Suwedi yarutse mu gihe yari ari gukora ikiganiro cya tombola kuri televiziyo. Yagize isesemi kubera ko atwite ahari

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