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From AfriGadget: “A small company in Madagascar is working to get electricity to rural areas of the island. This video shows them taking the solar panels around in a van to show people how it works and educate the children on solar power. It’s an interesting video, especially near the end where Bill hooks up his computer to the internet through a satellite connection at night - all powered by the solar panel’s stored energy.”

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Recent Links also in Sub-Saharan Africa

AK of For Sudan comments on the Sudanese government accepting a agreed to the deployment to Darfur of a joint force of the African Union and the United Nations: “So is this a move in the right direction? Absolutely! However, the ‘international community' i.e. the US has been focusing too much of its effort to help “resolve” this conflict on its military aspect. I see it like this, the security and humanitarian situations are the side effects of the real issues of politics, economics and the environment”.

Icheoku writes about last Monday's murder of Igwe Uche Nwachime, a high chief of the Enugu state in Nigeria, after being abducted.

Rucco van der Merwe of Eyeing Africa posted a series of photos of a taxi-park in Kampala and of beautiful landscapes in the Karamoja region.