Journal hard-to-get-a-nickna's Journal: African governments use hotmail

Andrew Davies (Making Waves), the Greenpeace Ocean press officer tells us an insider story about how Greenpeace's efforts to blockade Probo Koala, the tanker which poisoned thousands of people in Abidjan (killing 8), because Estonian government (the country where Greenpeace has tracked down the boat) became suspicious after an official request sent by Ivorian government to stop the Probo Koala on its behalf. The official email came from a Yahoo account:

"But something went wrong. The officials in Estonia dismissed the official request. The reason: it purported to come from a minister in the Ivory Coast government, but had arrived in an email from a Yahoo! account. But it's true, gentle reader: the entire government of the Ivory Coast conducts their online correspondence entirely via Yahoo accounts. (And that's progressive: other African governments use Hotmail!.) Helen had to scramble to bridge the communication gap back to the Ivory Coast to ask them to send a fax. Preferably one with lots of official seals and stamps."