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FROM CAPE TO CAIRO

DW's Ludger Schadomsky (left) travelled through Africa and kept a web diary recording the sights, sounds and people he encountered in ten countries.

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"Rather by train than by minibus" says Ludger Schadomsky. "You meet more people that way".

Africa makes news headlines as a continent stricken by conflict, diease and poverty, but it also is a loud, colourful place with bustling markets, roaring football stadiums, religious fervour, and magnificent scenery.

Find out more by browsing through Ludger's web diary.

write to ludger schadomsky at:capetocairo@dw-world.de

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CAPE TO CAIRO - 20

Ludger Schadomsky makes a short visit to the Pyramids
January 14, 2004

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Ludger Schadomsky meets an amiable naturalised German-Somali, who is trying to persuade his fellow countrymen to adopt the German way of life.
January 13, 2004

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Living and dying in Zimbabwe
January 13, 2004

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MamaFM is a radio station in Uganda run by women for women. Ludger Schadomsky has been to see this beacon of women's rights with a name that evokes affection in very nearly everbody.
December 29, 2003

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DW web reporter Ludger Schadomsky has been to the Afrikaner homeland of Orania. When breakfast was served by a white male – as opposed to a black woman – he knew he was in for a very special South African experience...
December 29, 2003

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Zambian minister's son starts early with Aids prevention
December 29, 2003

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Ludger Schadomsky goes on a photo safari in Kenya
January 12, 2004

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A lost Paradise : one year after the bomb blast on the Paradise Hotel near Mombasa, Kenya`s tourist industry is still waiting for visitors – and those who lost relatives are still waiting for their promised compensation
December 29, 2003

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Hundreds of thousands have died in the bloody conflict waged by the notoriously brutal Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda. Ludger Schadomsky has been talking to survivors and those trying to help them.
January 5, 2004

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Victoria Falls: "all whites look the same"
December 29, 2003

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Ludger Schadomsky hitches a ride along Uganda's "AIDS Highway" from Kampala to the Kenyan border.
January 5, 2004

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"I want a pyramid, too!" says Ludger Schadomsky
January 14, 2004
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