still a long pause in the blog. It 's time, however, to put something new here is the picture of Burundi, where I spent part of the time in which the blog has been neglected. You can see clicking on the title. Once again, photos are not perfect: they were made with a mobile phone, often by a car in motion. Were made in Bujumbura and in some other city in the country: Ngozi, Gitega, Muranvya.
Some more news: Burundi has emerged from several years of a long and violent internal conflict (along ethnic lines, between Hutu and Tutsi groups) and you start struggling to consolidate a democracy in a few months there will be elections for second time after the signing of peace agreements. It is expected that a period is "hot" violence and intimidation have already taken place in recent months, as well as the recovery of forms of mobilization and paramilitary training (also seen in some photos groups of people running ... groups are sometimes jogging, sometimes the youth clubs of the parties, who are preparing to do battle). But hopefully you are to the stage of episodes. It 's a tired and poor country that struggles a little' to go. The roads are often good, but people are so poor from having to travel on foot, or "moto-taxi" and "taxi veil" (which make the bike taxi service, transporting people or other types of load), the water infrastructure are almost non-existent (and this explains the many photos of bicycles laden with water tanks), the markets fairly improvised. In the city - that is, in Bujumbura and in a somewhat 'lesser, Gitega - instead accumulate resources: in the picture is the obvious difference of vehicular traffic in and out of town.
It 's also a country full of energies, like those of people gathered in the workshops of some of the photographs object, intent on discussing the role of civil society for the development of the country.
Well, no "big picture", but look a little 'attention may give the impression of a country on the move.
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