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Discover the Rhythm of Ouagadougou

Experience the rhythm of the heart of West Africa by taking a thrilling journey to the vibrant capital city of Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou. Absorb the multitude of cultures, delve into the intriguing history, and immerse yourself in the bustling yet fulfilling street life of Ouagadougou. For any passionate traveler, the city's vivacious atmosphere and enchanting spirit is a must-see experience.

Best Time to Visit Ouagadougou

Plan your trip during the city's cool season which runs from November to February to get the most out of your visit to Ouagadougou. With pleasant temperatures and sunny days, this period is ideal for exploration and sightseeing.

Reaching Ouagadougou

The primary international gateway to Ouagadougou is Thomas Sankara International Airport. I opted for a direct flight from Paris, landing straight into the vibrant city life of Ouagadougou.

Accommodation in Ouagadougou

Budget or luxury, Ouagadougou ensures a comfortable stay for every traveler. I opted for a delightful guesthouse in the central city, offering both affordability and a glimpse into local living. For those who wish to indulge in luxury, grand hotels such as Laico Ouaga 2000 and Sopatel Silmande offer top-tier experiences.

Things to Do in Ouagadougou

Strolling through the lively streets of Ouagadougou provides a real sense of the city's energy. Visit the bustling local markets filled with color and chatter, explore historical marvels like the Grand Mosque and the National Museum. For nature enthusiasts, a visit to the nearby wildlife parks is an absolute must.

Ouagadougou Dining Scene

The culinary scene in Ouagadougou is rich and diverse, catering to all tastes. From sampling traditional dishes at Sogna Yiri to indulging in fine French cuisine at L'Eau Vive, dining options are aplenty. Don't forget to try the delectable street food, offering a true taste of Burkina Faso's culinary heritage.

Ouagadougou - Stunning Sights

Historical landmarks like the Ouagadougou Cathedral and the Moro-Naba Palace are captivating sights for tourists. Marvel at their striking architecture and learn about the city’s past. For a dose of nature, a visit to the Bangr-Weogo Urban Park is highly recommended.

Ouagadougou City Tours

Taking a city tour in Ouagadougou is a great way to acquaint yourself with its rich history. Opt for guided tours that cover city monuments and museums. Cultural tours provide a deeper understanding of the captivating Burkinabé traditions.

Nightlife in Ouagadougou

The city comes alive at night with bustling markets and lively bars. Hear the soulful live music at local joints or simply enjoy a leisurely stroll beneath the starry African sky.

Ouagadougou Transport

Shared taxis and minibuses make up the city's main mode of public transport. Besides being affordable, they offer insightful glimpses into local Ouagadougou life.

Shopping in Ouagadougou

The local markets of Ouagadougou are filled with exquisite jewellery, local crafts, colorful textiles, and traditional masks, making shopping a delightful experience for visitors.

Final Thoughts on Ouagadougou

Ouagadougou, with its radiant warmth, undeniable charm, and vibrant life is a treasure waiting to be discovered. Ensconced in its rich cultural heritage and renowned for its heartwarming hospitality, the city is a must-add to your travel bucket list! Read the full article

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Burkina Faso is a landlocked country located in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It has a population of approximately 21 million people and its capital and largest city is Ouagadougou.

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Top 10 Most Underrated Cities in Africa

Top 10 Most Underrated Cities in Africa

Looking for the top 10 most underrated cities in Africa? Tourists and residents in stunning and well-known cities tend to have the opinion that the only locations worth living in or visiting are those with larger map dots. Instagram is flooded with images of tourists climbing Table Mountain in Cape Town, wandering through Chefchaouen, Morocco, or posing in front of the Giza Pyramids, but the…

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New world news from Time: COVID-19 Cases in Africa Surpass 1 Million — But the True Toll is Likely Higher

(JOHANNESBURG) — Africa’s confirmed coronavirus cases have surpassed 1 million, but global health experts say the true toll is likely several times higher, reflecting the gaping lack of testing for the continent’s 1.3 billion people.

While experts say infection tolls in richer nations can be significant undercounts, large numbers of undetected cases are a greater danger for Africa, with many of the world’s weakest health systems. More than 22,000 people have died of COVID-19.

The World Health Organization calls the milestone a “pivotal point” for Africa as infections in several countries are surging. The virus has spread beyond major cities “into distant hinterlands” where few health resources exist and reaching care could take days.

Immediately knowing they were at a disadvantage, African nations banded together early in the pandemic to pursue badly needed testing and medical supplies and advocate for equitable access to any successful vaccine. Swift border closures delayed the virus’ spread.

But Africa’s most developed country, South Africa, has strained to cope as hospital beds fill up and confirmed cases are over a half-million, ranking fifth in the world. The country has Africa’s most extensive testing and data collection, and yet a South African Medical Research Council report last week showed many COVID-19 deaths were going uncounted. Other deaths were attributed to other diseases as people avoid health centers and resources are diverted to the pandemic.

It’s all a warning for Africa’s other 53 countries of what might lie ahead. While dire early predictions for the pandemic have not played out, “we think it’s going to be here at a slow burn,” the WHO’s Africa chief, Matshidiso Moeti, said Thursday.

Just two African countries at the start of the pandemic were equipped to test for the virus. Now virtually all have basic capacity, but supplies are often scarce. Some countries have a single testing machine. Some conduct fewer than 500 tests per million people, while richer countries overseas conduct hundreds of thousands. Samples can take days to reach labs. Even in South Africa, turnaround times for many test results have been a week or longer.

“We are fighting this disease in the dark,” International Rescue Committee expert Stacey Mearns said. In addition, Africa has just 1,500 epidemiologists, a deficit of about 4,500.

African nations overall have conducted just 8.8 million tests since the pandemic began, well below the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s goal of 13 million per month. Countries would love to increase testing if only supplies weren’t being snapped up by richer ones elsewhere.

Africa CDC director John Nkengasong said estimating the true number of cases on the continent is “very tricky.” Some 70% of infections are asymptomatic, he has said. Africa’s young population also might be a factor. Without a dramatic increase in testing, “there’s much we don’t know.”

But some experts are making their best guesses.

Africa likely has at least 5 million infections, said Ridhwaan Suliman, a senior researcher at South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. He believes the true number in South Africa alone is at least 3 million. The country has conducted far more tests than any other in Africa — more than 3 million — but in recent days about 25% have come back positive. Because of shortages, South Africa largely limits testing to health workers and those showing symptoms.

Experts see South Africa as an indication of what’s to come elsewhere.

Sema Sgaier, an assistant professor of global health at Harvard and director of the Surgo Foundation, thinks the number of infections across Africa could be more than 9 million. The U.S.-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation puts the number at more than 8 million. And Resolve to Save Lives, led by Tom Frieden, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, estimates it could be 14 million.

For Resolve to Save Lives senior vice president Amanda McClelland, the more worrying number is not the overall cases but the health workers infected across Africa — now about 35,000. That affects care for everyone on a continent whose shortage of workers has been called catastrophic.

Reflecting the pandemic’s diverse nature across Africa, just five countries account for 75% of confirmed cases: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana and Algeria. Nigeria alone could have had close to 1 million cases by now if Africa’s most populous country hadn’t acted quickly, the Africa CDC’s Nkengasong said.

Still, with insufficient testing, people live with the fear that loved ones may have had the virus without knowing for sure.

In Burkina Faso, Yaya Ouedraogo lost his uncle and cousin in April. Both were in their 70s with a history of high blood pressure and diabetes, and both had complained of shortness of breath, fever and body pain, he said.

“They had all the symptoms of coronavirus, but in certain areas no one was investigating it and they didn’t get tested,” he said.

The WHO Africa chief has said officials don’t think the continent is seeing a “silent huge epidemic,” with thousands dying undetected, but she acknowledged under-reporting of cases.

“What we’d like to see — to be able to be really confident — is higher testing rates,” Moeti told reporters last week, and she criticized the “very distorted global market” in which richer countries have the bulk of testing materials while poorer ones scrape by on just hundreds of tests a day.

Moeti also worries about a related danger for which even less data exists: the number of deaths from diseases such as malaria, HIV and tuberculosis as resources are diverted to COVID-19.

Whatever Africa’s real coronavirus toll, one South African church has quietly been marking the country’s “known” number of deaths by tying white ribbons to its fence. The project’s founders say each ribbon really stands for multiple people.

Already, the Rev. Gavin Lock wonders about what to do when the length of fence runs out. Maybe they’ll change the ribbons’ color to represent 10 people, or 50.

“It’s a work in progress,” he said.

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Associated Press writer Sam Mednick in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, contributed to this report.

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An Incredible Adventure In Renovating An Iconic Piece Of Architectural History

An Incredible Adventure In Renovating An Iconic Piece Of Architectural History

Homes

by Lucy Feagins, Editor

The Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin-designed home of Mary and Marc Parlange in Toorak. The couple first purchased the home in 2017, soon after moving to Australia from Canada, and knew very little about the Griffins’ legacy! Photo – Caitlin Mills. Styling – Annie Portelli.

The view from the front patio into the study window, which has an interior window so you can see through into the inner courtyard. Photo – Caitlin Mills. Styling – Annie Portelli.

The living room featuring a vintage Hans Wegner chair found in the warehouse Angelucci. Vintage lamp also from Angelucci. Photo – Caitlin Mills. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Mary Parlange is a writer and editor who has covered the latest developments in science, engineering and medicine for more than 20 years. Vintage 70s bentwood leather chair by Farstrup Mobler in Denmark. Vintage ceramic lamp from Angelucci. Photo – Caitlin Mills. Styling – Annie Portelli.

A wall of the master bedroom. ‘Marc saw this painting in a restaurant in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso when he was working in rural Burkina on a research project. The restaurant owner promoted local artists by displaying their work on the walls,’ explains Mary of this painting’s origins. The stool was purchased when the couple were living in Switzerland, in celebration of their 20th wedding anniversary. Photo – Caitlin Mills. Styling – Annie Portelli.

The front (TV) room. Vintage Eames chairs made in Australia in the 70s by Herman Miller, found by Mary at Angelucci. Lamp by Herman Miller. The rug belonged to Mary’s parents, from Belgium. Photo – Caitlin Mills. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Left: Mary showing a remnant of a knitlock concrete tile, showing how the pieces slide together and interlock. The use of these unique tiles meant that there was no mortar used in constructing the walls. Right: In the dining room. A painting from Mary’s parents’ collection, depicting the US southwest landscape, by Peter Meyerson. ‘It reminds me of New Mexico, where I grew up,’ Mary says. The mountain lion is also folk art from New Mexico. The Polar bears are by an Inuit artist, bought for Mary by Marc when they were living in Vancouver.  Photo – Caitlin Mills. Styling – Annie Portelli.

The corridor to the inner courtyard. The cupboard door design is the same as the one used for the windows. ‘The Griffins often designed all the elements of a house, including light fixtures and rugs,’ Mary tells. Photo – Caitlin Mills. Styling – Annie Portelli.

A view from the kitchen into the corridor surrounding the inner courtyard.Photo – Caitlin Mills. Styling – Annie Portelli.

The guest bedroom. The bed belonged to Mary’s mother – forged in wrought iron by an artisan in rural New Mexico. The painting is by Forrest Moses and was also part of Mary’s parents’ collection. Photo – Caitlin Mills. Styling – Annie Portelli.

The Master bedroom. In the shelves are a small collection of Russian nesting dolls (matryoshka). ‘My parents started collecting them when my father (a particle physicist) traveled to the USSR for scientific collaborations’, Mary tells.  Photo – Caitlin Mills. Styling – Annie Portelli.

Author Mary Parlange moved from Vancouver to Melbourne in late 2017, as her husband Marc took an academic position at Monash University. When scouting for a home in their new city, the couple bid on some contemporary houses, but ‘hadn’t really found the right place.’ After scrolling though real estate apps, Mary stumbled across the Salter House, designed by Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahoney Griffin in 1924.

Mary describes ‘when we walked in it just felt right, like Goldilocks finding the right bed.’ Their offer was accepted and as the reality set in, Mary reveals ‘we looked at each other and said “what have we just done?” At the time, we knew almost nothing about the Griffins or the history of the house. We just knew this could become a home.’

The ‘home-making’ process was not a straight forward or simple one, with their builder Stuart McLean reminding Mary and Marc ‘you can’t open a can of worms without expecting to find any worms.’ The budget and timeline were revised countless times to accommodate the essential excavation and re-stumping of bedrooms, reinforcing of walls, rewiring, gutting and refitting of bathrooms, and all closets, built-in shelving and door hardware being replaced. Floors were repaired, sanded, stained and finished, and fireplaces were updated.

In addition to these extensive structural changes, interior walls were painted matte white, against an exterior grey. The landscaping was also completely redesigned by Sam Cox, introducing Castlemaine slate, and native planting ‘more in line with Griffin’s landscape philosophy.’

Mary describes the joy of moving through the home, where different ceiling heights create a sense of opening out, and inviting in. The iconic Griffin designed knitlock concrete tiles create a curved ribbing effect, and give the home a distinctive and timeless aesthetic.

For such a unique house, it is almost uncanny how well the couple’s furniture and artwork sits against the Griffins’ design. Beloved items include the bed in the guest room, forged in Pojoaque New Mexico, which originally belonged to Mary’s mother. The home tells a story of the family’s globe-trotting life, with pockets of folk art from their travels peppered through the property. Mary particularly highlights the combination of her parents dining table, paired with the Hans Wegner sofa and chair (restored by Angelucci 20th Century). She explains that everything fits together in this house ‘like it was pre-ordained.’

This stunning renovation was a major undertaking, ‘from the time we moved to Melbourne to when we moved into the house, we lived in seven different apartments and AirBnbs’ Mary admits. But the process has not only delivered a beloved home, Mary has also developed a new passion for the life and work of the Griffins. She explains ‘we have lived all over the world, and this has – by far – been the biggest adventure and most rewarding result.’

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Songs of freedom: In jail, Burkina inmate makes first album

BOBO-DIOULASSO, Burkina Faso: Wearing a black “Hate Hero” T-shirt, a large pair of headphones clamped over his ears, the young singer croons into a microphone at a simple recording studio inside a prison in Burkina Faso.

Jonathan Sougué, records his video clip among co-prisoners inside the Bobo Dioulasso prison on Aug 9, 2018. (Photo: OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP)

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Known as Johnyto, the 25-year-old is serving two years for being an accomplice to robbery at an overcrowded prison known for its abysmal conditions in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina’s second city.

Here, he is one of 700 inmates, some of whom are looking on curiously as he works the synthesizer, the mixer and the amplifiers.

“School didn’t work out because I wanted to make music, but well, that didn’t take off … Many things happened before I wound up here,” admits the young singer, whose real name is Jonathan Sougue.

“But one day, I hope to become a real star and forget this life.”

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And in March, Johnyto finally got the break he was looking for when he entered an audition run by Burkinabe reggae star Freeman Tapily who was looking for an inmate who could record an album behind bars.

In what could have been dubbed “Prison’s Got Talent” or perhaps “X-Factor Behind Bars”, four people in his jail vied for first place, and Johnyto, with his mix of rap and ballads, won.

Several months later, Tapily’s team came into the prison and set up a basic recording studio where Johnyto spent three days with them recording five songs, shooting a music video and taking a series of publicity shots.

MUSIC FOR REHABILITATION

The project is being jointly financed by the Burkinabe Office of Author’s Rights and by African Culture, an organisation owned by Tapily which invites well-known Burkinabe singers and musicians to perform at concerts inside prisons for free as a way of helping with the inmates’ rehabilitation.

“These projects are close to my heart,” Tapily told AFP.

He started the initiative in 2010 with a concert performed in front of 1,400 inmates at the MACO central prison in the capital, Ouagadougou.

“Now it’s 2018 and there are roughly 2,000 prisoners. It’s going up!” he said.

But what he really wants to see is the numbers falling — in a sign that the inmates are completing their sentences, getting out and getting on with normal lives.

“For the number to fall, we have to get on with rehabilitation. With rehabilitation, we will fight crime and repeat offences, that’s our battle,” he said.

“And in terms of rehabilitation, music can do a lot.”

“I’M SORRY”

Tapily has a lot of confidence that Johnyto can make it as a professional musician.

“Me, I make my living from music … and I think Johnyto’s talent is far greater than mine,” he told AFP.

“I think he can go beyond rehabilitation – he’ll definitely do that – but I think he could even help other people do the same,” he said, suggesting the young musician could even hire some of them to work with him.

The album, which is due to be released in December, has songs on it with lyrics in both French and Dioula, a local language also spoken in Ivory Coast and Mali.

And Johnyto has dedicated the main track – “I’m Sorry” – to his mum.

“I didn’t know how much you loved me / I’m sorry, yes mama, I’m sorry / I’m sorry to have caused you so much misery,” he sings.

Jonathan Sougué, records his album at the Bobo Dioulasso prison on Aug 9, 2018. (PHoto: OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP)

Once the album is finished, Tapily’s team will burn 100 copies that Johnyto can distribute and sell himself, like most Burkinabe musicians do.

Although the prison administration itself doesn’t get involved in funding such external activities, it is happy to encourage them and to ensure the events go off as smoothly as possible.

FROM SEWING TO STOCKBREEDING

For Pascal Yabre, regional head of prison security, rehabilitation of the inmates is a top priority.

“The aim is to enable those prisoners who have been here once to leave and never come back,” he said.

Across this West African nation, prisons are now offering inmates training in a wide range of skills, from gardening to livestock farming, to tailoring, carpentry and soapmaking.

Activities vary from one place to another, but for now, only a small percentage of prisoners are involved.

“The problem is that we often lack resources, which means we don’t manage to put them on at all the prisons,” Yabre admits, citing financial difficulties at the prisons’ authority.

For Tapily, the funding shortfall is easily explained.

“We are in a poor country where everything is a priority so the state can’t allow itself to spend too much on the prisons,” he says.

“If I was president and had to choose between building a new hospital and a new jail, I would choose a hospital!”

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List of Countries with their Capital and Currencies PDF Download

Important Countries and their Capitals and Currencies PDF

  Countries with Their Capital and Currency names are very important for any competitive examinations like UPSC, IAS, Railway, Banking, SSC, CGL and other as well. To remember these capital and currency names are not easy. Complete List of Countries, Currencies, Capitals. So you need to practice daily. Once you able to remember I sure it will help you to crack any competitive exams. Hereby we have presented Country Capital And Their Currency list PDF of 193 United Nations Member States. As you must be aware, every competitive exam these days, be it bank exams, UPSC exams or SSC exams will have few questions based on countries – capitals – currencies. Thus we request our readers to memorize this list which shall help them to score couple of marks with sure shot precision.    

LIST OF COUNTRIES ,THEIR CAPITAL AND CURRENCIES

    AFRICA

Country Capital Currency Algeria Algiers Algerian Dinar Angola Luanda New Kwanza Benin Porto-Novo Franc Botswana Gaborone Pula Burkina Faso Ouagadougou Burkina Faso Franc Burundi Bujumbura Burundi Franc Cameroon Yaoundé Franc Cape Verde Praia Escudo Caboverdiano Central African Republic Bangui Franc Chad N'Djamena Franc Comoros Moroni Comorian Franc Congo Brazzaville Franc Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro Franc Djibouti Djibouti Djibouti Franc Egypt Cairo Egyptian Pound Equatorial Guinea Malabo Franc Eritrea Asmara Eritrean Nakfa Ethiopia Addis Ababa Birr Gabon Libreville Franc Gambia Banjul Dalasi Ghana Accra Cedi Guinea Conakry Guinea Franc Guinea- Bissau Bissau Guinea- Bissau Peso Ivory Coast Abidjan and Yamoussoukro Franc Kenya Nairobi Kenyan Shilling Lesotho Maseru Loti Liberia Monrovia Liberian Dollar Libya Tripoli Libyan Dinar Madagascar Antananarivo Malagasy Franc Malawi Lilongwe Malawian Kwacha Mali Bamako Malian Franc Mauritania Nouakchott Ouguiya Mauritius Port Louis Mauritius Rupee Mayotte Dzaoudzi and Mamoudzou French Franc Morocco Rabat Moroccan Dirham Mozambique Maputo Metical Namibia Windhoek Namibian Dollar and Rand Niger Niamey West African Franc Nigeria Abuja Naira Reunion Saint- Denis Euro Rwanda Kigali Rwanda Franc Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome Dobra Senegal Dakar West African Franc Seychelles Victoria Seychelles Rupee Sierre Leone Freetown Leone Somalia Mogadishu Somali Shilling South Africa Cape Town Rand St. Helena Jamestown St. Helena Pound Swaziland Mbabane and Lobamba Lilangeni Tanzania Dar es Salaam Tanzanian Shilling Togo Lome Franc Tunisia Tunis Tunisian Dinar Uganda Kampala Ugandan Shilling Zambia Lusaka Zambian Kwacha Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwe Dollar    

ASIA

Country Capital Currency Afghanistan  Kabul  Afgani  Armenia  Yerevan  Dram  Azerbaijan  Baku  Manat  Bahrain  Al-Manamah  Bahraini Dinar  Bangladesh  Dhaka  Taka  Bhutan  Thimphu  Ngultrum  Brunei  Bandar Seri Begawan  Brunei Dollar  China  Beijing  Yuan  Cyprus  Nicosia  Cypriot Pound  Cambodia  Phnom Penh  Riel  East Timor  Dili  U.S. Dollar  India  New Delhi  Indian Rupee  Indonesia  Jakarta  Rupiah  Iran  Tehran  Rial  Iraq  Baghdad  Iraqi Dinar  Israel  Tele Aviv  Shekel  Japan  Tokyo  Yen  Jordan  Amman  Jordanian Dinar  Kazakhstan Akmola  Tenge  Korea (North)  Pyongyang  Won  Korea (South)  Seoul  Won  Kuwait  Kuwait City  Kuwaiti Dinar  Kyrgyzstan  Bishkek  Kyrgyzstani Som Laos  Vientiane  Kip  Lebanon  Beirut  Lebanese Pound  Malaysia  Kuala Lumpur  Malaysian Ringgit  Maldives  Male  Rufiyaa Mongolia  Ulan-Bator  Tugrik  Myanmar  Yangon  Kyat  Nepal  Kathmandu  Nepalese Rupee  Oman  Muscat  Rial Omani  Pakistan  Islamabad  Pakistani Rupee  Philippines  Manila  Peso  Qatar  Doha  Qatari Riyal  Saudi Arabia  Riyadh  Riyal  Singapore  Singapore  Singapore Dollar Sri Lanka  Colombo  Sri Lankan Rupee  Syria  Damascus  Syrian Pound  Taiwan  Taipei  New Taiwan Dollar  Tajikistan  Dushanbe  Tajik Rouble  Thailand  Bangkok  Baht  Turkmenistan  Ashgabat  Turkmenistani Manat  United Arab Emirates  Abu Dhabi  UAE Dirham  Uzbekistan  Tashkent Uzbekistani Som  Vietnam  Hanoi  Dong  Yemen  Sana  Riyal     

 EUROPE

Country Capital Currency Albania  Tirane  Lek  Andorra  Andorra-la-vella Andorran Peseta, Euro  Armenia  Jerevan  Dram  Austria  Vienna  Schilling, now Euro  Azerbaijan  Baku  Manat Belarus  Minsk  Rouble  Belgium Brussels  Belgian Franc, now Euro  Bosnia & Herzegovina  Sarajevo  Dinar  Bulgaria  Sofia  Lev  Croatia  Zagreb  Kuna and Croatian Dinar  Cyprus  Nicosia  Cyprus Pound  Czech Republic  Prague  Czech Koruna  Denmark  Copenhagen  Danish Krone Estonia  Tallinn  Kroon  Finland Helsinki Markka, now Euro  France  Paris  French Franc, now Euro  French Guiana  Cayenne  French Franc, now Euro  Georgia  Tbilisi  Lari  Germany  Berlin  Deutsche Mark, now Euro  Greece  Athens  Drachma, now Euro  Hungary  Budapest  Forint  Iceland  Reykjavik  Icelandic Krona Italy  Rome  Lire, now Euro  Latvia  Riga  Lat  Liechtenstein  Vaduz  Swiss Franc  Lithuania  Vilnius  Litas  Luxemburg  Luxemburg  Luxemburg Franc, now Euro  Macedonia  Skopje  Macedonian Dinar  Malta  Valletta  Maltese Lira  Martinique  Fort-de-France  French Franc, now Euro Moldova  Kishinev  Moldavian Leu  Monaco  Monaco  French Franc, now Euro  Netherlands  Amsterdam, The Hague (political Capital)  Dutch Guilder, now Euro  Norway  Oslo  Norwegian Krone  Northern Ireland  Belfast  Pounds  Poland  Warsaw  New Zloty Portugal  Lisbon  Escudo, now Euro  Romania  Bucharest  Romanian Leu  Russia  Moscow  Russian Federation Rouble  San Marino  San Marino  Italian Lire  Scotland  Edinburgh  Pound Sterling  Slovakia  Bratislava  Slovak Koruna  Slovenia  Ljubljana  Tolar  Spain  Madrid  Peseta, now Euro Sweden  Stockholm  Swedish Kroner  Switzerland  Berne  Swiss Franc  Tajikistan  Dushanbe  Tajik Rouble  Ukraine  Kiev  Hryvna  United Kingdom  London  Pound Sterling  Uzbekistan  Toshkent/Tashkent  Uzbekistani Som  Vatican City  Vatican City  Italian Lire Yugoslavia  Belgrade  New Dinar  Whales  Cardiff  Pound Sterling     

NORTH AMERICA

Country Capital Currency Antigua and Barbuda St. Johns East Caribbean Dollar Bahamas Nassau Bahamian Dollar Barbados Bridgetown Barbados Dollar Belize Belmopan Belize Dollar Canada Ottawa Canadian Dollar Costa Rica San José Colón Cuba Havana Peso Dominica Roseau East Caribbean Dollar Dominican Republic St. Domingo Peso El Salvador San Salvador El Salvadorian Colón Grenada St. George's East Caribbean Dollar Guatemala Guatemala Quetzal Haiti Port-au-Prince Gourde Honduras Tegucigalpa Lempira Jamaica Kingston Jamaican Dollar Mexico Mexico City Mexican New Peso Nicaragua Managua Córdoba Panama Panamá Balboa St. Kitts and Nevis Basseterre East Caribbean Dollar St. Lucia Castries East Caribbean Dollar Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago Dollar United States of America Washington D.C. US Dollar    

 SOUTH AMERICA

Country Capital Currency Argentina Buenos Aires Austral,  Neuvo Peso Bolivia La Paz Boliviano Brazil Brasilia Real Chile Santiago Chilean Peso Colombia Bogota Colombian Peso Ecuador Quito Sucre Guyana Georgetown Guyana Dollar Paraguay Asuncion Guarani Peru Lima New Sol Suriname Paramaribo Suriname Guilder Uruguay Montevideo Uruguayan New Peso Venezuela Caracas Bolivar French Guiana Cayenne Franc Falkland Islands Stanley Falkland Pound  

AUSTRALIA 

Country Capital Currency Australia  Canberra  Australian Dollar  American Samoa Fagatogo, Utulei  US Dollar  Christmas Island (Australia)  The Settlement  Australian Dollar  Cocos (Keeling) Islands  West Island  Australian Dollar  Cook Islands  Avarua  New Zealand Dollar  Fiji  Suva  Fiji Dollar French Polynesia  Papeete  Pacifique franc  Guam  Agana  US Dollar  Kiribati Bairiki  Australian Dollar  Marshall Islands  Majuro  US Dollar  Nauru Yaren  Australian Dollar  New Caledonia  Noumea  Pacifique franc  New Zealand  Wellington  New Zealand Dollar  Niue Alofi  New Zealand Dollar  Norfolk Island  Kingston  Australian Dollar  Northern Mariana Islands  Saipan  US Dollar  Papua New Guinea  Port Moresby  Kina  Palau  Koror  US Dollar  Pitcairn Island  Adamstown  New Zealand Dollar  Samoa  Apia  Tala  Solomon Islands Honiara Solomon Islands Dollar  Tonga  Nuku'alofa  Pa'anga Tuvalu  Funafuti  Australian Dollar  Vanuatu  Port-Vila  Vatu  Virgin Islands (British) Road Town  US Dollar  Virgin Islands (US) Charlotte Amalie  US Dollar  Wallis and Futuna Mata-Utu Franc    Read the full article

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Hello my Dear Friends,

Do you remember my post “MarteModena Citizen pen family – part 1” if not you can find it here.

MarteModena Citizen fountain pens

Marte Modena has a brilliant idea, Marlen has brought this idea into real life and fountain pen users can grab their favourite colors and write and write and write …

MarteModena Citizen Vatican fountain pen

MarteModena Citizen Vatican fountain pen

MarteModena Citizen Vatican fountain pen

MarteModena Citizen fountain pen parts

MarteModena Citizen fountain pen parts

Today is 18th of January 2017 and what is so important with this date? Generally nothing, but … I am so happy, that I can announce premiere which will be held on 19th of January of the new MarteModena Citizen fountain pens line. Another seven cities will join the club tomorrow.

MarteModena Citizen Vatican fountain pen

MarteModena Citizen Sao Paulo fountain pen

MarteModena Citizen Jerusalem fountain pen

So far we had a chance to see (in the first series) cities as follows: New York, Tokyo, Bejing, Mumbai, Moscow, Modena, Madrid and London. Then there was a Special Citizen for Africa set which consist of 7 African cities: Bujumbura, Il Cairo, N’Djamena, Nairobi, Ouagadougou, Pretoria and Yamoussoukro.

Now is time to present new ones, here we go:

Vatican

MarteModena Citizen Vatican

Sao Paulo

MarteModena Citizen Sao Paulo

Paris

MarteModena Citizen Paris

Mexico City

MarteModena Citizen Mexico City

Jerusalem

MarteModena Citizen Jerusalem

Havana

MarteModena Citizen Havana

and Abu Dhabi

MarteModena Citizen Abu Dhabi

Aren’t they beautiful?

This can be a nice line for not only fountain pen users but also for enthusiasts who want to build their collections with good quality and reasonably priced fountain pens (you can find my review of marteModena Citizen London here.) 22 cities so far is a quite impressive set, especially with such beauties as London, Il Cairo, Modena or Havana.

MarteModena Citizen fountain pen

MarteModena Citizen fountain pen

MarteModena Citizen fountain pen

MarteModena Citizen fountain pen

MarteModena Citizen fountain pens

MarteModena Citizen fountain pens

What I was missing earlier with Citizens, it was the only one nib size – M.

But now there is also another good news, with the launch of new series there will be available broader set of nibs (available also for previous series). Now you can choose from EF, F, M and B.

MarteModena Citizen fountain pen

MarteModena Citizen fountain pen

MarteModena Citizen fountain pen

MarteModena Citizen fountain pens

MarteModena Citizen fountain pen

Technical specification hasn’t changed and is as follows:

very comfortable section for writing with different hand sizes

pens are made of a special resin hand turned from solid bars

inspection window

ink converter

hand-carved metal parts

Peter Bock AG nib with Marte Modena logo engraved on

MarteModena Citizen fountain pens

MarteModena Citizen fountain pens

MarteModena Citizen fountain pens

I hope this is not the end, there are so many interesting cities through the whole world, so many color combinations. I am looking forward to following 7 cities and another and …

All photos made by Marte Modena with my framing in some cases :).

    MarteModena Citizen pen family – part 2 Hello my Dear Friends, Do you remember my post "MarteModena Citizen pen family - part 1" if not you can find it…

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(JOHANNESBURG) — Africa’s confirmed coronavirus cases have surpassed 1 million, but global health experts say the true toll is likely several times higher, reflecting the gaping lack of testing for the continent’s 1.3 billion people.

While experts say infection tolls in richer nations can be significant undercounts, large numbers of undetected cases are a greater danger for Africa, with many of the world’s weakest health systems. More than 22,000 people have died of COVID-19.

The World Health Organization calls the milestone a “pivotal point” for Africa as infections in several countries are surging. The virus has spread beyond major cities “into distant hinterlands” where few health resources exist and reaching care could take days.

Immediately knowing they were at a disadvantage, African nations banded together early in the pandemic to pursue badly needed testing and medical supplies and advocate for equitable access to any successful vaccine. Swift border closures delayed the virus’ spread.

But Africa’s most developed country, South Africa, has strained to cope as hospital beds fill up and confirmed cases are over a half-million, ranking fifth in the world. The country has Africa’s most extensive testing and data collection, and yet a South African Medical Research Council report last week showed many COVID-19 deaths were going uncounted. Other deaths were attributed to other diseases as people avoid health centers and resources are diverted to the pandemic.

It’s all a warning for Africa’s other 53 countries of what might lie ahead. While dire early predictions for the pandemic have not played out, “we think it’s going to be here at a slow burn,” the WHO’s Africa chief, Matshidiso Moeti, said Thursday.

Just two African countries at the start of the pandemic were equipped to test for the virus. Now virtually all have basic capacity, but supplies are often scarce. Some countries have a single testing machine. Some conduct fewer than 500 tests per million people, while richer countries overseas conduct hundreds of thousands. Samples can take days to reach labs. Even in South Africa, turnaround times for many test results have been a week or longer.

“We are fighting this disease in the dark,” International Rescue Committee expert Stacey Mearns said. In addition, Africa has just 1,500 epidemiologists, a deficit of about 4,500.

African nations overall have conducted just 8.8 million tests since the pandemic began, well below the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s goal of 13 million per month. Countries would love to increase testing if only supplies weren’t being snapped up by richer ones elsewhere.

Africa CDC director John Nkengasong said estimating the true number of cases on the continent is “very tricky.” Some 70% of infections are asymptomatic, he has said. Africa’s young population also might be a factor. Without a dramatic increase in testing, “there’s much we don’t know.”

But some experts are making their best guesses.

Africa likely has at least 5 million infections, said Ridhwaan Suliman, a senior researcher at South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. He believes the true number in South Africa alone is at least 3 million. The country has conducted far more tests than any other in Africa — more than 3 million — but in recent days about 25% have come back positive. Because of shortages, South Africa largely limits testing to health workers and those showing symptoms.

Experts see South Africa as an indication of what’s to come elsewhere.

Sema Sgaier, an assistant professor of global health at Harvard and director of the Surgo Foundation, thinks the number of infections across Africa could be more than 9 million. The U.S.-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation puts the number at more than 8 million. And Resolve to Save Lives, led by Tom Frieden, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, estimates it could be 14 million.

For Resolve to Save Lives senior vice president Amanda McClelland, the more worrying number is not the overall cases but the health workers infected across Africa — now about 35,000. That affects care for everyone on a continent whose shortage of workers has been called catastrophic.

Reflecting the pandemic’s diverse nature across Africa, just five countries account for 75% of confirmed cases: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana and Algeria. Nigeria alone could have had close to 1 million cases by now if Africa’s most populous country hadn’t acted quickly, the Africa CDC’s Nkengasong said.

Still, with insufficient testing, people live with the fear that loved ones may have had the virus without knowing for sure.

In Burkina Faso, Yaya Ouedraogo lost his uncle and cousin in April. Both were in their 70s with a history of high blood pressure and diabetes, and both had complained of shortness of breath, fever and body pain, he said.

“They had all the symptoms of coronavirus, but in certain areas no one was investigating it and they didn’t get tested,” he said.

The WHO Africa chief has said officials don’t think the continent is seeing a “silent huge epidemic,” with thousands dying undetected, but she acknowledged under-reporting of cases.

“What we’d like to see — to be able to be really confident — is higher testing rates,” Moeti told reporters last week, and she criticized the “very distorted global market” in which richer countries have the bulk of testing materials while poorer ones scrape by on just hundreds of tests a day.

Moeti also worries about a related danger for which even less data exists: the number of deaths from diseases such as malaria, HIV and tuberculosis as resources are diverted to COVID-19.

Whatever Africa’s real coronavirus toll, one South African church has quietly been marking the country’s “known” number of deaths by tying white ribbons to its fence. The project’s founders say each ribbon really stands for multiple people.

Already, the Rev. Gavin Lock wonders about what to do when the length of fence runs out. Maybe they’ll change the ribbons’ color to represent 10 people, or 50.

“It’s a work in progress,” he said.

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Associated Press writer Sam Mednick in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, contributed to this report.