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Navigating through Africa

July 5, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Stan Rogers Curious and reticent, locals will walk by with a straight face. Thirteen weeks and 14,000+ kilometres later I have managed to travel through six countries of Southern Africa. When you tackle an expedition like this, you encounter … read more »

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Immigration mounts surveillance to check passport racketeering

April 15, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

ABUJA—Newly posted comptroller of Ikoyi/Festac Passport Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Mr Sessi Patrick Adeshola, said yesterday that the command had put in place intelligence/surveillance unit to checkmate touts and unscrupulous officers from engaging in passport racketeering. He spoke … read more »

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Where the Sahara Meets the Sea: Mauritania

April 13, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

by Geoff Weiss, Travel Writer and Andrea Papitto, Producer, Essakane Film Although considered off the beaten path for many world travelers, the Saharan nation of Mauritania has much to offer adventuresome visitors who are open to its cultural complexities, historic … read more »

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Safari Code Breaker

April 13, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

by Rebecca Reynolds, President and Founder, Rebecca Reynolds Consulting Dropping down over the Drakensberg escarpment, an immense shelf of land that gives way in great carved ravines to the vast plains below, I was awed by its magnitude. Instinctively, I … read more »

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