Timbuktu

The Tuareg tribesmen just took over Timbuktu...and the BBC has a nice article about that ancient city.

here is a nice video about that town:


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related item: Hesperian has health information and books for those traveling to where there is no doctor available. Their new digital commons include iPhone apps for things like childbirth.

don't laugh: even our cook and farmers have cellphones, and even Sister Eurphrasia in rural Zimbabwe says her convent has a cellphone for emergencies.