a écrit le 7 janvier 2017 à 21h43 Fortunately for me rock music is the universal language and the guitarist in the hotel lobby band spoke reasonable English and imagined himself to be keen for an adventure. I immediately put him on a contract of $US100 a day and within hours we were sitting in the waiting room of the prime minister of Congo.
Eventually the plane wreckage was found by French military in an inaccessible region of the Âdeepest Congo rainforest. Recovery of the bodies took a week.
But there had been two tragedies in Congo that week. For the prime minister and local reporters, who chain-smoked and drank in a square in the city, the air crash in which 11 people, including the Australian directors, were killed was unwelcome news. But it was somewhat overshadowed by a local rail disaster, in which 76 people had died.
It was a similar story at home. As I had sat thinking of my future in a West African jail, Australian deputy prime minister Julia Gillard had made her challenge to Kevin Rudd.
My story did make page one of the newspaper on one of the Âbiggest news days of the decade but it was painfully clear that most people had other things on their mind.
Eventually the plane wreckage was found by French military in an inaccessible region of the Âdeepest Congo rainforest. Recovery of the bodies took a week.
But there had been two tragedies in Congo that week. For the prime minister and local reporters, who chain-smoked and drank in a square in the city, the air crash in which 11 people, including the Australian directors, were killed was unwelcome news. But it was somewhat overshadowed by a local rail disaster, in which 76 people had died.
It was a similar story at home. As I had sat thinking of my future in a West African jail, Australian deputy prime minister Julia Gillard had made her challenge to Kevin Rudd.
My story did make page one of the newspaper on one of the Âbiggest news days of the decade but it was painfully clear that most people had other things on their mind.
