Woops.
Joshua Foust on Aug 25 2008 at 9:43 am | Filed under: Foreign affairs
Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Kevin Rudd sent extra diplomatic and police officials to west Africa to help investigate the kidnapping in Somalia of a group of reporters, including an Australian photojournalist.
“We have deployed additional staff from our mission in Pretoria to our High Commission in Nairobi,” Rudd told reporters in Canberra today. “This is a sensitive and difficult case. We are engaged at every level.”
Australia doesn’t have diplomatic representation in Somalia and its officials in neighboring Kenya are making contact with Somali authorities as well as the Canadian, French and British embassies to help locate Nigel Brennan, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said.
Both Somalia and Nairobi, Kenya, are in East Africa.
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It’s all west of Australia.
Maybe they should put names and borders on those world maps the TV anchors always sit in front of.
I got it before the “East Africa” punchline. Honest! asecondhandconjecture.com is a great little blog . . . bookmarking now . . . thanks and keep up the good work.