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Malawi looks grim. It is by far the poorest country I’ve visited. The situation might be slightly better now than fifteen years ago - when I was here for the first time - it is still indefinitely poorer than it’s neighboring countries.
Goods are incredibly cheap, a Coke costs about 10p, a night in a basic […]

I’m picking up a parcel with new cameras, but DHL slapped a whopping 38408.90 kwachas import duty on it, which I’m reluctant to pay. Nobody blinked an eye when I crossed borders with my first 60 ones, so I don’t see why right now I should pay duty for an amount (about 150 pounds) which […]

Off to Tete, the hottest place on earth, halfway on the main road connecting Malawi with Zimbabwe and eventually Blantyre, where a shipping with new cameras is waiting.
Tete looks as typical a Mozambican town as you can get: as if nothing changed since Independence, with retro neon billboards, and obviously, matching hotels.

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Originally uploaded by gert.

Photographs from the cross-border football competition between teams from Zumbo, Luangwa Feira (Zambia) and the villages at the other side of the Zambezi (Zimbabwe). Bairro Lusaka, named after the Zambian capital due to the amount of Zambians living in the neighbourhoud, are supposed to be the strongest.

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The little home cinema, set up with an old VHS player and a colour TV at Restaurante Fatima, Zumbo.

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My aim is to cross the border from Feira to Zumbo, and make my way further down to Tete. Transport after Zumbo is a problem: the road to Tete is in a dire condition and partly washed away by the floods of 2001. There is rarely a car making it’s way up. The alternative is […]

Luangwa Feira serves as the export station of dried Zambezi fish from Mozambique. Some of these pallets will end up for sale as far as the DRC, on the markets in Lubumbashi and Kisangani.

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