Jason Florio & Helen Jones-Florio

‘150,000 Cross Med.’ in 2015 – Migrant Report

‘Some 150,000 migrants are believed to have reached Europe by sea to date so far in 2015, with virtually all of them landing in Italy (74,947) or Greece (75,970), according to the International Organisation for Migration.. .’ read more on Migrant Report, by Mark Micallif

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Photo of the Day: Fishing off Jinack Island, The Gambia, West Africa

Taken whilst on assignment for B-Spirit (Brussels Airlines, inflight magazine) – Walking the entire coastline of The Gambia, with photographer, Jason Florio HJF

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Photo of the day: The dark side of the moon – from a boat in the Mediterranean Sea © Jason Florio

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Blessed by a Marabout – spiritual healers, Koranic scholars – in West Africa

‘A Short Walk in the Gambian Bush – 930km African odyssey‘ 2009 When we stayed with Alkalo, Fatou Dansu (one of only 5 female chiefs, at the time, in The Gambia), in the town of Basse, we met a strange, yet intriguing, old man called Mr Bah. Outwardly, he reminded me the obsequious UriahContinue reading “Blessed by a Marabout – spiritual healers, Koranic scholars – in West Africa”