[Imc-africa] New Years update on delegates and travel arrangements/budget

[terna gyuse]

hello again, Fabian

sorry to stress - but there's a very cheap flight available from here to
jo'burg
can you send me my flight details so i can book myself a connection?

thanks
terna

On 1/2/07, fabian <fab at in-no.org> wrote:
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> Hello everybody,
> happy new year 2007 to those who actually count this way.
> Let me give you a brief update on the delegates situation.
> Unfortunately Doh from the Malian delegation jumped off the project
> last minuite (and after I bought a ticket for him) and will not be with
> us in Nairobi. After we spent over 1100 Euros on his ticket he doesn't
> even bother explaining to the list, why he can't make it. I only heard
> it through Zoul/Mamadou in the delegation who said he is in Belgium as
> a political refugee which sounds like a rather heavy thing.  In any
> case we will be left with a  heavy cancelation fee. I hope we will hear
> from him some explanation at some point as this is not only a shame
> because we could have spent the money wiser...without a word from him
> it is also rather difficult to explain the whole thing to our funding
> bodies and will almost certainly harm our credibility as a collective.
> After Laila from kairo and Jennifer from Nigeria he is the third
> delegate from the original list, who won't come. In Jennifers case, it
> is probably down to us partly. After some initial contact with the
> list,  I suppose she didn't actually ever join or at least not read the
> mailing list. When I asked her  (about six weeks ago) to provide
> details for her ticket, she apparently didn't understand the connection
> between me and the WSF-IMC. This is probably why she never answered
> until a few days ago. I asked her then twice if she still wanted to
> come and join us, but I didn't get any further answer, so I guess she
> is not interested anymore. In any case, if she still reacts, we will
> find a way.
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> We are still struggling to get the Visa clearence letters from the
> other 2 Malian delegates and Kola from Nigeria, which seems to be
> rather difficult as it is now last miniute. We might have to bail them
> out of immigration detention in nairobi, but certainly we shouldn't let
> this state border obsession ruin their attendence. And I would be very
> happy to make a scandal if our delegates are prevented from attending
> the WSF because the Kenian state things it has the right to control
> people's (of the African Union, for all sakes!) freedom of movement.
> (rant over)
> The Camerooian delegation as we just heard from Rene is awaiting their
> visa clearence letter, but I am sure this will work for them so they
> can arrive around the 15th of January.
> Good news from the Southafrican and Zimbawian delegation, as I can
> proceed and buy their tickets tomorrow. They arrive on the 14th of
> January. Also good news for Soodakur from Mauritius. I will get his
> ticket tomorrow as after Doh's withdrawel we have now some more space
> in the travel budget. He will be with us from the 19th January.
> Also the Ugandian delegation helped us save a lot of dosh because they
> agreed to go by Bus. We still don't know when they are coming though.
> Bukulu, let us know.
>   With all this savings we can ensure to refund the travel expenses of
> 10 Masemo University delegates (any news when you guys are coming?) and
> hopefully cover the increased acccomondation bill (see John's mail for
> this, he said he will give us an update today) with the Umverteilen
> budget.
> See you soon
> Fabian
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