My African Adventure

[cobrajet69]

Still room for a few more. I estimate 150-200. These fellas are returning from Libya for one reason or another. Either they were there to work (doubtful), to go to Europe but ran out of money (likely), or were training in the finer arts of jihad and returning to "sleep" in Niger (highly likely as reported by local drivers).

No IED handy?




David

[Jimbo]

I'lI be jamming " I miss the rains down in Africa" , for you.

https://g.co/kgs/39yKCy

Sorry, had to.

Still jealous, man. He who dares, wins.

[Taylor]

Still better than the railroad.

[KBScobravert]

Just a morning dust storm at 7am. It went from a cool clear morning to 100m visibility in 10 minutes.

[KBScobravert]

Is there a feeling of diminished value of life?

This region is primarily Muslim. They make the best they can with the life they have but it is the next life that is important to them.

[KBScobravert]

The guy on top is lifting the power lines so they don't get pulled down. this truck came in from Algeria through the Sahara/Sahel desert in Libya and North Niger.

[Darren M]

Is there a feeling of diminished value of life?

[KBScobravert]

Still room for a few more. I estimate 150-200. These fellas are returning from Libya for one reason or another. Either they were there to work (doubtful), to go to Europe but ran out of money (likely), or were training in the finer arts of jihad and returning to "sleep" in Niger (highly likely as reported by local drivers).

[KBScobravert]

They should have funneled the water into the pool!

I should have been more specific. The empty pool is at our shithole hotel. The military and the bladder are on a camp across the town. I'm sure they had enough water after that 1 storm to last a while. Too bad that rainy season just kicked off though.

[Scott Mc]

They should have funneled the water into the pool!

[KBScobravert]

First rain I've experienced here. Pool never got full.



The base didn't fare as well as we did in the hard structure hotel. They lost a few tents, a dumpster went rolling 100yrds and slammed into their water bladder. The bladder burst wide open and they lost roughly 10k gallons of all their water. The look on their face today was still "we will rebuild".

[KBScobravert]

Do you just go sit around for a week waiting on a visa?

But yeah, pretty much gonna sit around for a week and wait on the visa. Go see the city, hit the beaches, maybe go take some tours. Company provided hotel room with a food allowance there so I will only be out of pocket what I spend outside the hotel. I should be able to rent a car with a driver from the hotel also to be billed to the company so I can get around.

[KBScobravert]

Do you just go sit around for a week waiting on a visa?

I'll have a pretty lengthy assessment of the area and hotel where they put me. We are going to have to use the hotel again in the future for transiting employees from CAR and Niger to get their Cameroon visas also. Plus folks in Cameroon now will have to leave the country at the end of their allowed stay and apply for a new visa and Senegal is more convenient than flying them to Italy.

The assessment I just finished for this shitty little hotel I am in now was 28 pages long and took quite some time to put together. I can imagine that the Dakar will be just as lengthy. Plus I will have to make an appointment with the US Embassy there to meet the Regional Security Officer for DOS so I can get the lay of the land from the DOS point of view. With any luck I can start working on the generic stuff I can find on the internet while I am still here in Niger . Then just fill in the bare spots when I get there with what I can only find while on the ground.

[Baron Von Crowder]

Do you just go sit around for a week waiting on a visa?

[KBScobravert]

Heading to Dakar, Senegal to do an assessment on a hotel and get my Camaroon visa. Probably spend a week there then on to Yaounde, Camaroon.

Sure, I'll go spend a week here. Dakar, Senegal