Falsa partenza I have long been undecided whether to post these lines, but while disassembling the backpack and put the pants in the drawer, I realized that the double-decker is also this: a record not only the highlights, successes and satisfactions of my experience as a traveler, but also the shadows and delusions.
things first: after giving up Papua New Guinea (too much time was required for the mission) and have lost Yemen (organizational and bureaucratic problems that have made it impossible to start soon) are was chosen (or sacrificed?) to join the emergency team to Côte d'Ivoire.
I waited three weeks in Varese that supporters of Gbagbo and Ouattara, the two Presidents of Côte d'Ivoire, regardless interposition of UN peacekeepers, began to slaughter.
Waiting bitter, because my desire to leave had to compare with the hope that in Côte d'Ivoire is not really anything serious happened and that the diplomacy of neighboring states, the love of Ouattara and Gbagbo for his people and the common sense of citizenship and did their part to prevent a country emerging from a few years after the civil war will slip back.
Meanwhile, I have prepared My double-decker, I did a full tank, I cleaned the body and interior, I checked the oil level and tire pressure. I loaded, I turned on the engine and waited.
Outside the metaphor I have thought long and tried to return to the roots of my choice to work with my NGO, trying to accept that being part of a large organization should also say this: to be available and put their own ambition, for a project even when it escapes the sense.
Without losing the critical sense, of course. Some things were handled impeccably even by Doctors my beloved and I will do this to the proper authorities. But that is gone and, in summary, the double-decker for now does not start and is returning to the garage waiting for a next call.
I still feel vague enough that I felt useless and unused visas for Côte d'Ivoire passport.
As usual, a few thanks:
- to Misna (The Missionary International Service News Site, www.misna.org) , for Alertnet (The World's Humanitarian News Site, www.trust.org / Alertnet ) and the BBC (image not serve presentations) because they are published daily in some elements useful for understanding the evolution of the situation, as our media nazionalpopolari were responsible for many other issues; - Uncle Pac for providing more than two liters of grappa good part of which served to make it less stressful this expectation and in part will be preserved for the next (real) start;
- to everyone, first of all Stefania, who these days have encouraged me, comforted, and, as always endured.
For those who want to see you in Milan on February 5 for the manifestation of freedom and justice ( www.libertaegiustizia.it ) to request all together for the resignation of our prime minister, even if they are pessimistic: if we do not think Mother Nature, I see gray.
Cheers!
PS: the following two articles Misna just to give you the idea of \u200b\u200bwhat's happening in Côte d'Ivoire.
Misna From the January 28, 2011
A few hours from the expected summit of the African Union, President Laurent Gbagbo announced announced the nationalization of the largest private companies upcoming Ivorian. Among these is the 'Company Ivorian electricity '(CIE), whose operations center in Abidjan is already under government control Gbagbo. Several hours many cities of former rebel areas of central, north and west are finished in the dark, with some local sources attribute the blackout to "deliberate interruptions in power supply to power," reads the website of information ' Abidjan.net ', a press officer Cie speaks of "broken systems and ongoing repairs to the possibility of reducing the amount of energy to the grid." No reaction, at least for now, the president of the international community recognized his rival, Alassane Ouattara, the difficult situation created in regions support it. To intervene again on the post-election crisis Ivory Coast, in place for the past two months, was meanwhile the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon. From the economic summit in Davos, Ban Ki-moon called on Gbagbo to "respect the will of the people" and said he was "concerned about the differing views within the African Union (AU). To make the cost of the difficult situation in a country that has gone through a long political crisis (2002 to 2007) is mainly the population. The latest humanitarian aid distributed by the local UN mission, the UNOCI, confirms that at least 271 people have been killed in recent weeks following an incident related to the political crisis. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced today that in the neighborhood of Adjamé, north of Abidjan, seven people died and 35 others have been infected with cholera.
Misna From the January 27, 2011
in Bouake, Korhogo and Man has been stopped indefinitely without notice and the provision of electricity, leaving them in the dark all the inhabitants of the areas known as' Cno ', ie Centre, North and West, still partly under the administration of former rebel New Forces (FN) and close to the president Alassane Ouattara. "The power failure is not due to a technical failure in the area of \u200b\u200bBouaké (...) According to Trusted is a voluntary act on the recommendation of Laurent Gbagbo, "reads the site information 'Abidjan.net.' In the economic capital Abidjan, to be the object of contention between the two rival presidents is instead the headquarters of the Bank central countries of West Africa (BCEAO) has been attacked in the night attributed to forces from the safe and close to Gbagbo would be gone eight billion CFA francs (12.2 million euro). To tell the site 'Jeune Afrique 'are internal sources of the bank of the Economic Community of West African countries (ECOWAS / Ecowas), a regional organization that is planning a military intervention to force Gbagbo to leave power for the benefit of Ouattara, recognized by the international community the true winner of the elections of 28 November. Two months since the crisis began to suffer from post-election political stalemate in Côte d'Ivoire is the economy of the entire West African region in the 'land of the cocoa' is one of the pillars. The slow pace of business activities in Ivorian ports and virtually paralyzed the transportation of goods on land is causing economic harm to producers in Mali and Burkina Faso, whose assets are obliged to go through the Ivory Coast, in addition to generating heavy price increases of essential goods to consumers Mali, Burkina Faso and Togo. The Ivorian situation described as "explosive" by the head of the Nigerian state Goodluck Jonathan, as President of the ECOWAS. "We need the cooperation of international institutions such as the African Union and the United Nations and a unified position to resolve the crisis for now, all options remain on the table," Jonathan said from Abuja. From Washington, where he engaged in a diplomatic mission, a delegation of ECOWAS was obtained from the U.S. government a "full support to the efforts to facilitate a peaceful transfer of power in favor of the winner Ouattara. To insist on the need to give priority to the path of dialogue and consultation between the parties is the government instead of Windoeck seeking "a solution for the good of all African peace and democracy, removing the path of violence, "said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Namibia, Nujoma Tony. A Malabo Prime Minister Gilbert Ngbo Ake presented instances of head of state to President Ggagbo Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who with great probability become the new President of the AU, whose summit opens Sunday in Addis Ababa. "If Gbagbo should stay in power despite losing, this will be a step backwards for the whole of Africa," he instead said the World Economic Forum Davos former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
