Mon, Oct 14, 2002 - Page 11 News List

Net cafe in W Africa plays cupid

MATCHMAKING SERVICE A clever young entrepreneur earns extra cash by helping young ladies who are in search of a worthy husband to write letters and post them

REUTERS , ABIDJAN

Yolande says the French embassy has twice refused her a visa after a Frenchman she met in Ivory Coast sent her money and a ticket to join him.

She said she will keep trying.

"I can't read and I can't write, my mother works in the fields at the village. When I have a child, I want him to have a different life," she said.

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