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March 21, 2005

Good news and Bad news

That radio meeting on 16 March went okay. There is bad news and good news.

The bad news is that the process for applying for a broadcasting license has been recently reviewed - it is now swathed in approximately forty-six miles of red tape where previously there were only thirty.

The good news is that we at last have a contact in the Conseil General(the Jedi Council in Ouagadougou which makes decisions about who gets licenses and who doesn't). The application will be considered entirely on its own merits, of course, but Mr X is going to make sure we fill in all the right forms and stamp them with all the right stamps. Contacts are everything here: it really helps if you know a man who plays boules with a man whose son goes to school with the boy who feeds the president's ostriches.

I now have to write up the project properly and start to look for funding. I am convinced that radio will be good news for Djibo, and will be posting bits and pieces here in the coming weeks about why that is so.

By the way, the vomiting has stopped. Thanks for your prayers.

Posted by sahelsteve at March 21, 2005 09:36 PM