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World Bank gives Africa $164.5 mln for internet connections
al-Reuters ^
| 4/3/07
Posted on 04/03/2007 7:49:35 PM PDT by lqclamar
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The World Bank has approved financing worth $164.5 million for Kenya, Burundi and Madagascar for high-speed internet connections, the bank said on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT
The region is the only place in the world not connected to the global broadband infrastructure, making telephone calls and Internet access very expensive, the bank said.
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TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: africa
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I have a strangest feeling that the number of spam emails offering me money from frozen African bank accounts is about to double in volume...
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:49:37 PM PDT
by
lqclamar
To: lqclamar
You had exactly the same reaction that I had.
“Mr. ________,
I am a barrister in Benin and a foreign national from your country has died and left $12.5 million in the National Bank...”
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:51:39 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: lqclamar
Yes, the availability of counterfeit money and money orders will go up proportionately...more scams, flim-flam and all the other sleaze and crime we get out of Africa on the net.
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:54:11 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: lqclamar
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:54:57 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
( Hunter/Thompson in 08! Or Rudy/Hillary, if you want America finished off!)
To: lqclamar
I may be the only person on the face of the earth that actually did have an uncle die in Cairo who left me a previously-unclaimed fortune!
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:57:20 PM PDT
by
RushCrush
($5M raised by The Gap RED campaign, $100M spent on marketing for RED campaign. Don't buy RED stuff!)
To: stephenjohnbanker
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:57:24 PM PDT
by
Afronaut
(Supporting Republican Liberals is the Undeniable End to Freedom)
To: RushCrush
I think the World Bank would do a greater service if it provided food for the starving folks in Africa.
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:59:43 PM PDT
by
basil
To: RushCrush
I may be the only person on the face of the earth that actually did have an uncle die in Cairo who left me a previously-unclaimed fortune! Glad to hear of our good fortune cousin RushCrush.
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posted on
04/03/2007 7:59:47 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: lqclamar
Bible - $2.00
US Constitution- $1.00
Surplus SKS Rifle- $150
Knowledge that you have freed a man-Priceless.
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:00:06 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
(Dig deeper, more ammo.)
To: lqclamar
World Bank gives Africa $164.5 mln for internet connections Now... if they can just get electricity...
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:05:44 PM PDT
by
Triggerhippie
(Always use a silencer in a crowd. Loud noises offend people.)
To: Triggerhippie
Now... if they can just get electricity...
Hehe - that's what I was thinking: no electricity, no running water, no food, and the latest tinpot dictator coming for your head but hey, if you only had a laptop, you could be surfing the web right now!
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:08:52 PM PDT
by
fr_freak
To: fr_freak
They might as well pour this money down a rat-hole.
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:10:55 PM PDT
by
TruthFactor
(The Death of Nations... pornography, homosexuality, abortion)
To: lqclamar
He's worried about his carbon footprint and the latest football scores...
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:11:42 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(AL GORE STALKED ME ON 2/25/2007!)
To: lqclamar
That $196,000,000 in microloans could have launched tens of millions of small businesses in Africa or wherever, rather than saddling a bronze-age continent (I’m giving them credit, I was going to say stone-age) with technology it doesn’t yet need. But that would make sense and wouldn’t entail payoffs from the ISPs.
To: lqclamar
Anyone seen this guy lately?
Better check his new freezer for some cold cash.
To: lqclamar
Yes, Nigeria especially needs more internet servers and phone lines.
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:16:49 PM PDT
by
patriciaruth
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562436/posts)
To: lqclamar
Yet another $164.5 mln down the rat hole.
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:18:29 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: Eagles6
Recipe for world peace...abolish the UN (and the World Bank)
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:18:55 PM PDT
by
endthematrix
(Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.)
To: basil
[I think the World Bank would do a greater service if it provided food for the starving folks in Africa.]
Or took care of the massive amount of AIDS orphans.
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:20:18 PM PDT
by
khnyny
(Hillary and Bill Clinton: Also (or more appropriately) Known As : "Hillbilly")
To: Afronaut
I haven’t laughed so hard in years!
Thanks, Afronaut!!
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posted on
04/03/2007 8:23:57 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
( Hunter/Thompson in 08! Or Rudy/Hillary, if you want America finished off!)
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