Previous Afrilinks: here.       1. Rwanda just converted in to the first country in the world to have more women than men in their parliament. In the parliamentary elections they had this past Sunday, 44 seats were won by women, this represents 55% of the total. In the exiting parliament, 48.8% of the seats were in women's hands which constituted the highest percentage globally, followed by Sweden with 47%, proving that not everything is bad in Africa.       2. According to this article from Reuters, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country with the potential to feed the world but a misuse of arable land and lack of investment to maintain it leaves many of its own people hungry. And it is a country that has more of less 800 million hectares of cultivable land, the seventh largest amount in the world. What more, the Congo River and its enormous network of tributaries abundant water for irrigation. Their various climates, from tropical rain forests to Savannah, offer ideal conditions for distinct types of cultivations.       3. And speaking of agriculture, a few days ago the newspaper, Público published an interesting interview with Jacques Diouf, the director of FAO (UN Organization for Agriculture and Food) in that he spoke about the actual crisis of food. Very lucid.       4. The television channel TV3 of Catalonia has an outreach program for cultural and gastronomy called Karaki that travels the world through the culinary customs of others' countries. The truth is that I did not know the program, but the indefatigable Aurora recently sent me the episode last year devoted to Central Africa (Tanzania, Rwanda and the two Congos), pipa and I spent time watching the recipes of dishes such as fufu. The video of the program in question can be seen here, and although the recipes are in Catalan, they are very visual and I think it is good to learn recipes that are completely different from ours.       5. And speaking of African food, a few days ago the author of the blog Congogirl posted a photo of a dinner attended by some friends at a Congolese home in Kinshasa, where one can see several typical dishes.       6. And to close, some pictures of the book Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa from the photographer Hans Silvester which are dedicated to the personal ornamentation of the tribes of the Surma and Mursi, in the border area between Ethiopia Kenya, and Sudan. Similar to what is seen in the photo below, in this article you will find a few more. Simply amazing.