Comments on: Darfur: Not the Size of France or Texas

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:35:11 +0000

Not too much of a beach around Tuti as I remember it. Just a vertical drop off to the water, around 5 meters down, and then when you get there a climb back up another bluff about the same height. Never was there at high water though, may be easier to enter and egress this time of year.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:35:20 +0000

I tweeted you Rob, but I think you better get your kit off and get down to the beach,

"Another rebel commander lashed out at African Union and UN peacekeepers, who are struggling to provide security in a region broadly the size of Turkmenistan with just over a third of the 26,000 troops they have been promised."

http://news.smh.com.au/world/dozens-feared-killed-in-darfur-camp-20080826-4290.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:07:30 +0000

About the size of Achill island’s football pitch

By: Primal Sneeze

Primal Sneeze — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:36:43 +0000

So how big is Tuti island then? Half a Skye? Two Aran MÃ³rs?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:09:46 +0000

Hmm Turkmenistan. I’m willing to offer a prize to the first person who gets the Spain comparison into a story. If anyone gets a Turkmenistan comparison into a story I will swim naked to Tuti Island

By: JEM

JEM — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:56:19 +0000

Turkmenistan is the closest comparison.
Or Croatia and Iraq put together.
Croatia had 14,000 UN troops.
Iraq still has 150,000 US troops.

Twice the size of the UK?
There are 168,000 police in the UK.
How feeble does that make our 10,000 friends at UNAMID?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:36:20 +0000

All comparisons are welcome. I would particularly like to see those using that other journalistic measuring device – the double decker bus

By: Steve B

Steve B — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:26:24 +0000

How about 'roughly twice the size of the UK'?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uk.html