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Il observe le panneau STOP! Sans blague!

Je ne croyais pas à cet adage jusqu’à ce que je fasse un tour à Koudougou (90 km de Ouagadougou) un de ces week end!

J’ai en effet, fait la connaissance, en seulement une demi-journée, de la plupart des policiers de la ville, à commencer par ceux du marché, mais là, c’était pour un SENS INTERDIT ( ) et de quelle manière, je vous laisse imaginer

La rue principale de KDG! Remarquez la piste cyclable, le cycliste...

En bon étranger, je me suis résigner à faire le tour de la ville à pied. Tout en observant les citadins sur leurs motos aux différent carrefours et croisements!  Dingue, comme un ballet d’automates: on arrive, on freine, on met un pied sur le tarmac, sinon les 2 avant de vérifier la voie à croiser. Et on redémarre en trombes si la voie est libre! Bizarre hein, tout au moins pour un cascadeur Ouagalais!

La Cité des Arts de KDG. J'ai pas cherché à en savoir davantage: j'ai perdu de mon coté artistique depuis que je sais parler aux ordinateurs!

Au fait, quand j’y pense, y a-t-il des panneaux STOP à Simonville? Zut, j’espère que Simon Compaoré, le bourgmestre de la capitale, ne tombera pas sur ce post…

Ouaga a connu, ce Mardi 1er Septembre 2009, une pluie ininterrompue durant près de 11h de temps. Au final : 260 mm de pluie, un record jamais atteint de mémoire de météorologue dans la capitale Burkinabè. Et comme il fallait s’y attendre, le plein du barrage situé au cœur de la ville n’a pas été la seule conséquence , loin s’en faut.

Plusieurs quartiers de Ouaga ont connu des inondations allant jusqu’à terrasser des habitations. L’un des pires cas se situe autour du barrage: les quartiers de Paspanga, de Dapoya, de Tanghin et de Tampouy (Pont de Baskuy) ressemblent aujourd’hui à des terrains ayant connu le passage de plusieurs bulldozers! Les quartiers de la périphérie “non lotis” auraient également connu plusieurs dommages. A n’en point douter quand on sait comment y sont construits les maisons. A cela, il faut ajouter les nombreux autres secteurs qui ont connu des inondations des heures durant, faute de canalisations appropriées.

Une vue du quartier de Dapoya, en longeant la voie qui sépare ce quartier du barrage.
On constate bien que l’eau continue de se déverser dans la zone.

En ce qui concerne la zone de Dapoya et Paspanga, le débordement du barrage a été constaté. Ce dernier s’est donc rempli jusqu’à se vider dans les quartiers avoisinants. Avec eux le CHN (ou encore CHU c’est selon) Yalgado Ouedraogo! On a pu ainsi voir cet hôpital national obligé de vider ses malades ou de les transférer dans d’autres centres. Quant aux habitants du quartier, ils étaient occupés à sauver ce qui pouvait l’être encore avant d’assister, impuissants, à l’écroulement de leurs concessions sous des eaux de plus d’un mètre de hauteur.

D’où est venu le problème?

Comme on a pu le constater, l’eau du barrage s’est déversée dans les quartiers au lieu de continuer vers la forêt comme à son habitude. Le niveau de la digue à cet endroit est en effet, plus bas que celui qui sépare la retenue des quartiers. Comment l’eau s’est donc retrouver à Dapoya, Tanghin, Paspanga? 260 mm de pluie, c’est pas petit boucan, surtout à Ouaga où les rues sont rarement construites avec des caniveaux. Des canalisations digne de ce nom, il faut le dire, manquent cruellement à Simonville! Sans compter ces innombrables chantiers babelitisques d’échangeurs qui bloquent à certains endroits les voies d’eaux!
Ouaga se retrouve aussi sans de ses ponts, de ses rares voies bitumées, de ses bâtiments… Car le courant de l’eau en a emporté certains. On peut comprendre que dans un pays sahélien comme le Faso, on prévoie difficilement de telles intempéries dans nos travaux de génie civil. Mais quand même un peu de sérieux là! Quand une ville se construit dans le chaos, sans plan de viabilisation, par à-coup, de tels évènements ne peuvent qu’être catastrophiques!

Et maintenant la suite…

Le gouvernement a mis en place un comité de crise et ouvert un numéro vert (800 01 138) à destination des sinistrés. Sans oublier d’en appeler à l’esprit de “solidarité active” des concitoyens. Il faudra donc les (pour)suivre de près afin de sortir au mieux de cette situation. On sait trop comment sont souvent gérées les suites ce genre de situation au pays des hommes intègres.

Comme dégâts “collatéraux”, il faut signaler l’engloutissement des centrales thermiques de Paspanga, pour un pays qui souffre deja de delestage, c’est le comble. L’ONEA nous previent également que la station de pompage du barrage qui fournissait 30% de l’eau courante a subi des dégâts. Ce qui entrainera des problèmes de fournitures d’eau allant jusqu’à des coupures dans certains secteurs de Ouaga.

On sait aussi que depuis longtemps, l’État guettait ces quartiers en vue du deuxième volet du projet ZACA! Notons également les prochaines échéances électorales qui approchent à pas d’étalons. Mesurés également l’indignation, le courroux des populations révoltées: il y a fort à parier que c’est là le début d’un feuilleton à rebondissement qu’il vaudra mieux suivre de près… A bon entendeur…

En lire davantage:

1. http://www.lepays.bf/spip.php?article2954
2. http://www.afrik.com/breve17154.html
3. http://www.rfi.fr/actufr/articles/117/article_84270.asp
4. http://www.catnat.net/actualites/catastrophes-monde/9830-01-pluies-diluviennes-au-burkina-faso–au-moins-3-morts
5. La cinémathèque africaine de Ouagadougou inondée, des films menacés
6. Inondations au Burkina Faso: 5 morts, 150.000 sinistrés (AFP)

PS: Cette article sera mis à jour au fur et à mesure des informations que je ne dénicherai ça et là. Alors stay tuned!

Hola amigos, he conseguido hablar con nuestros voluntarios favoritos, os dejo noticias frescas sobre Burkina.

No van a poder escribir casi nunca, internet no funciona y encontrar un locutorio no es tarea sencilla en la ciudad de Bobo. En el tema educativo ya estan con los chavales todas las mañanas y que algunos estan malitos y no pueden hacer las actividades (tampoco hay medicamentos). En la ciudad todos les intentan vender algo por todos los lados y los niños les quieren tocar por donde pasan.

En otros temas parece ser que Michel lleva camisetas de tirantes, pero todos se encuentran perfectamente y les gustaría que viesemos lo que ellos ven.

Un beso, Jose.

Yaklaşık 3 haftadır Maslak’tayım. Hani şu “küçük Manhattan“… Hatta şu an bu yazıyı yazdığım yerden kodaman bir inşaat firması “Mashattan” diye olağanüstü yaratıcı bir isme sahip rezidanzsss’ını da gözlemlemekteyim.

Ama böylesine steril gökdelenimsi bir yerde Ouagadougou diye çok özgün bir başkenti olan Burkina Faso‘nun büyükelçiliğinin olduğunu öğrenmek tabir-i caizse beni dumur etti.

İz Plaza Giz‘in resepsiyon bölümünde “yahu bu plazanın içinde başka kimler var” diye bakarsanız göreceksiniz ki, Burkina Faso’nun fahri konsolosluğu burnunuzun dibindedir.

So, I will start by apologizing for the long silence I took, and for never finishing the Africa updates but most of you have heard them out of my own mouth by now!

Here  I am on a lovely Wednesday evening, the household asleep, and me doing what I love most about night..me and God time with a mug of coffee! This is probably going to be the most up front and honest post I have ever done but it will show a little more into the real me!

The song This is Our God by Chris Tomlin is playing right now and in the song, Tomlin sings, “this is the One we have waited for”….. Is He the One I have been waiting for? Have I been letting Him be a Lover for the lonely?  The past couple of weeks I think I have allowed my focus to come off of Him and onto myself. My mind has been occupied with guys. I have been waiting on the right guy, and in getting wrapped up in that, I have not been occupied with waiting on God! The past few months I have watched many friends walk down the aisle to be married, I have received countless telephone calls, emails, and facebook messages of the news of engagement, and I still other friends just simply having that significant other to enjoy. In a way, I guess I long for that, as I guess most girls do. I am still young and yes, I realize that I still have lots of time and there is no real rush, but as I look to Burkina Faso I sure feel rushed! It unsettles me to think that God could put me on the mission field and I never marry or have children. I so strongly desire to have a family, I pray constantly that God allows that to be in His plan for me! In all honesty though, it is Africa that has my mind fretting about finding “him”, the very thing that I should not be doing because my attention should be on my call there, I am doing. But seriously, good gosh, its hard enough to find a guy, let alone find a guy that is called to the mission field. This truly is a God-sized task, as much as I hate to use that term! It is out of my control I suppose, all I can really do is rest easy and wait on God! Why it has taken me this long to realize that, I am unsure.  I have always known this, hence why I have really not dated, but even knowing this I still search….does not make much sense I guess. It is time for me to wait on God!

Besides that whole ordeal above, I have grown in big ways over the past couple of months.  God has been so good to me and those that I love. There have been difficult and trying times but He has remained faithful through them all. I a called beautiful in His eyes! He love me! My creator loves me!! What breathtaking truth that is! I cannot help but respond to that love in undignified worship! That kind of love is contagious! I am His and He is mine! I finally grasp what is looks like to love Him and not because I am supposed to. I have fallen in love! When we truly fall in love with God, we cannot help but be on fire for His kingdom! Lukewarm Christians, I have a hard time saying that these exists! If you know God, you love God, and if you love God, you will live a changed radical life of love! No ifs, ands, or buts. We are loved and will love in return! I refuse to sit back and watch this broken world and just say what a pity…..its time for change. We are His hands and feet, and must take action on that! It is time for people to have to stop denying Christians and instead only have room to accept or deny Christ.  We should not leave any room for doubt of who we are; the self-serving Christian has to become no more. To carry the name Christian we need truly be as those in the early church, in doing so, people will see and hear and feel the love of God and not deny that we follow Christ but can only make that decision to accept or deny Him.  We have to stop being the stumbling block for those that need to experience Christ! I am not perfect and will not be until I stand before God but until I get to that place, I will strive daily to live perfectly, to live a holy life. I just want to love Him more. I want to be zealously in love!

As a closer….I just realized I have not posted the BIG NEWS on here yet!!!

Burkina Faso, Africa…..the name of my future home. Yes. It is true. I have given my life to God as a career missionary to Burkina!  I am in the beginning stages of getting everything going with that, such as raising support, both in prayer and in finances! I have started a group on facebook (Brittany is Burkina Bound) to keep people updated and give a broad overview of what God is leading me to. Check it out! There is also a yard sale in a few weeks to help raise support. God has already been so faithful with all of this coming together! Please join God and myself on this mission to Burkina Faso in support both prayerfully and financially!

Let people know about whats going on with Burkina Faso and my move there! This is going to take a lot of people so get the word out! I love you all so very much and cannot wait to share with you more stories of God’s moving in my life!

Dimanche dernier nous partions nous balader au belvédère de la Chambotte et au lac du Bourget en compagnie d’ invités Burkinabés du festival Lafi Bala et de familles d’accueil. Le festival est maintenant lancé ! N’hésitez- pas à venir faire un petit tour aujourd’hui ou demain place de l’Europe à côté du Carré Curial : artisanat, conférences, contes, musiques… www.lafibala.com

Quelques photos souvenir de dimanche dernier :

Setting: Sitting down @ my computer sometime in the late afternoon, checking my World News, Football Statistics and Hotmail.

Everyone knows about Junk mail, also known to some people as Spam. These random and often enticing emails are often from E-hawkers, people trying to sell or convince you to buy a variety of miscellanous things online. Some examples of these products/services are:

1. Penis enlargement/Sexual enhancement pills.

2. Credit and debt advisors and programs.

3. Work from home employment opportunities.

4. Programs that teach you how to apply for free grants/loans from the government.

5. Dozens of Porn sites.

6. Perhaps the worst spam of all, the ones that are considered phishing scams.

Now phishing scams are constantly changing but usually revolve around some key points of interest. They almost always try to get some sort of private information out of you, whether its a credit card number, your home address, your likes and dislikes or even your social security number.

To get you to divulge this sensitive information, these emails are often sent in friendly tones or with a beauracratic sense of urgency, either attempting to appeal to your personal or business side.

These emails also have a tendency of being repeated, either from the exact same email address or from different names from the same basic sender. This makes most of these phishing scams pretty easy to identify; unless your completely new to email.

Ok, now that we’ve gone through a quick review, let’s begin.

So basically while sitting around at the computer the other day, I decide to go through my email and clean out some outdated and junk emails. After going through the couple dozen surveys, friend requests and occasional important email in my inbox, I proceed to click on the junk portion of my emails, which turned out to be around 400 or so messages.

The usual suspects were in there, some phishing scams, a few continued education emails (yeah, I should really look into one of those ), a myriad of different merchants and oh yeah…

ABOUT 30 OR MORE EMAILS FROM A STRANGE AND EXCITING PLACE KNOWN ONLY AS:  BURKINA FASO, AFRICA.

I was dumbfounded. How stupid could I be? All that work in high-school working on world geography and learning different languages and I had never heard of a place called Burkina Faso. Zaire? Sure. South Africa? Egypt?

Yup, Ebola, Sharks, Mummies and Pyramids. No problem.

Well according to these different and often confusing messages from a number of different people that supposedly live near or right in Burkina Faso, these are the only conclusions I could come up with:

1. The Bank of Burkina Faso is perhaps the richest or most illicit bank in the entire world.

2. People are constantly scamming people and using Burkina Faso as a stronghold for their ill-gained rewards.

3. Every single mother, every orphan of a nefarious plan to poison their parents, basically everyone who resides in Burkina Faso has access to millions or billions of dollars they are willing to share with me, for no apparent reason.

4. Burkina Faso MUST be a real place. I just haven’t heard about it. Yet.

5. Burkina Faso IS actually located in Africa. Right where Mongolia touches Zimbabwe (:P).

Now I know it’s a little hard to digest, my dear readers. How is it that none of us have ever heard of this country or place and yet so many people in dire need of western assistance are reaching out to us on the world wide web from there?

Why is it that everyone and their mother (literally), has access to some unfound loophole in the Bank of Burkina Faso’s money laundering program?

Either this is absolutely a real place OR hundreds or thousands of people from around the world have teamed up to scam the online email users of the world with this highly complicated scheme.

If the latter were the case, which I find highly unlikely, what would they be attempting to phish for? What information or monetary gains would they receive in return for tricking us into believing that they really do have 7 million dollars that is just waiting for only me?

I mean it’s really not that bad. I think all I have to do is send them my name, my home address, my sex, my age, my soul and possibly my credit card number(only for security reasons of course) and Ahmed Buijaya will contact me within 3-4 business days to transfer a portion of the money directly into my bank account.

FOR FREE!

That sounds reasonable doesn’t it? I mean really, over the years I probably have received at least 1000 emails from people living or working in Burkina Faso. How could every single one of these people/email addresses be wrong?

Maybe it’s just me. Maybe all of these emails have only been directed to my email address because I am the once and future king.

Of Burkina Faso…

Or maybe I’m just tired and have finally succumb to the nefarious evil plot hatched from the scheming minds of an entire city-state somewhere in the middle of the Zebras, Hyenas and Hippos of the vast Masai grasslands.

“Help me.”

-Mikey, Wong_83@hotmail.com

En el blog Siguiendo flechas he leído una historia interesante que me recuerda el concepto de solidaridad por necesidad: el bienestar del que me rodea contribuye a mi bienestar. Dependiendo de lo amplio que sea mi concepto de “otro” el principio puede ser revolucionario. Hace unos días leí una cita que recogía una sentencia kantiana y reproduzco aproximadamente: “Hasta un pueblo de demonios preferiría la paz a la guerra, la cooperación al conflicto, la ayuda mutua a la competencia desaforada. Siempre que, eso sí, tuvieran inteligencia.”

No pongo nada más porque ya está bien contado allí y la foto es también muy buena. Trata de Burkina Faso y cómo allí algunas tribus se entienden entre ellas.

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Les ETALONS ont batu samedi 6 juin les Flames du Malawi en match comptant pour la deuxième journée des éliminatoires combinées de la CAN et du Mondial.

C’est tout simplement fantastique, cette chevauchée des ETALONS: pour la 2e phase des éléminatoires CAN/Mondial 2010, duex matchs, deux victoires! Et de dix pour Moumouni Dagano. L’attaquant burkinabé a marqué son dixième but sur l’ensemble des deux phases des éliminatoires combinées CAN/Mondial 2010. Celui-là vaut cher puisqu’il offre un précieux succès 1-0 pour le Burkina Faso face au Malawi.

Les Eléphants de la Côte d’Ivoire sont allés s’imposer le dimanche 7 juin par 2 à 1 en Guinée face au Silly National. Une victoire qui leur permet de conserver leur fauteuil de leader du groupe 5 avec 6 points (une meilleure différence de but que les Etalons); ce qui laisse présager une rencontre explosive entre les deux premiers du groupe le 20 juin au stade du 4 août de Ouagadougou.

En plus la FIFA a tranché sur la question des joueurs binationaux. Habib Bamogo peut jouer avec les Etalons du Burkina. C’est ce qu’a décidé l’instance mondiale du football lors de son 59ème congrès tenu aux îles Bahamas, les 2 et 3 juin derniers. Désormais, tous les joueurs qui ont la double nationalité pourront choisir à tout âge quelle sélection nationale ils désirent intégrer, à la seule condition de n’avoir pas défendu les couleurs d’une équipe A.

Maintenant il reste que Bamogo (34 matches joués et 7 buts marqués cette saison) soit à nouveau convoqué par le sélectionneur, national Paulo Duarte. Serait-ce pour le match Burkina # Côte d’Ivoire du 20 juin prochain? Attendons de voir.

De toutes les façons une première qualification en Coupe du monde ne relève pas du rêve pour le Burkina Faso.