Safari Notes

Ebola With the recent Ebola outbreak killing at least 17 people and causing over 400 to be hospitalized in Uganda, in Kibaale District in particular - one wonders if the country, or any other country for that matter, can manage a serious Ebola outbreak. During the outbreak, public rallies and the shaking of hands in Kibaale District were banned. Would such measures help? How can they be enforced?

World wide, Africa has the least people using this most powerful, very useful of tools: the Web and the Internet. That's according to Tim Berners-Lee's newly created and just launched Web Index , which is described as a  new country-by-country global study that measures the impact of the Web on the world’s people and nations .

Lesula Monkey It is the 21st Century and, incredibly, a new monkey species has been discovered in Africa. In the Democratic Republic of Congo. In June 2007, a previously undescribed monkey known locally as “lesula” was found in the forests of the middle Lomami Basin in central Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) .