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Daily news keeps you busy.

I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been working at Contact FM producing our daily 20 minute newscast. Over ambitious and short on staff, the hectic days usually culminate into a frenzied few hours around 6 o’clock – as I imagine they do in any newsroom.

Nevertheless, I’m left without much to say or write after, rather seeking to satisfy basic needing like eating, drinking and sleeping.

If the connections here were better, I’d post what I do more often.

But Contact FM is available online (sometimes). Listen in sometime – hands down it’s the most critical newscast in the country, incorporating a broad range of perspectives. No one else does the news like we do.

Yes, sounds like shameless self-promotion.

www.contactfm.rw

I’ve recently returned from Goma, DRC where I reported on the recent eruption of violence in the North Kivu region. Such a sad situation there, with 100,000 people running from their homes into the forest. Many of these people were already living in refugee camps to begin with – having already forced out of their homes by rebel forces since 2003 when the civil war ended.

Here are some pieces I did while I was there. I know it’s seem like old news, but as the press reports on the political developments – the Nairobi summit, the recommendations of Ban Ki Moon, and CNDP leader Laurent Nkunda’s latest demands – the situation for the thousands of people whose lives are disrupted remains pretty much the same. Desperate and miserable.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44543

A podcast is coming when I have the time to upload.

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