Published by The Independent (3rd November, 2014) First came a report revealing terrible human rights abuses from a repressive regime backed by huge sums of British aid. A […]
Africa / Aid / Liberia
Our shameful response to the ebola crisis
Published by The Independent (20th October, 2014) I relaxed again this weekend. It was 21 days since I returned from Liberia to report on the human tragedy of […]
Africa / Liberia
A lethal epidemic and a lethargic global response
Published by The Independent (4th October, 2014) Augustin was agitated and scared. After weeks spent hiding in his house with his wife and children, he had left the […]
Africa / Health / Liberia
Bonfire of the ebola victims
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th September, 2014) As I walked into the walled Hindu-style cremation site outside Monrovia alongside the latest consignment of bodies, I saw […]
Africa / South Africa
Obesity: Africa’s new crisis
Published by The Observer Magazine (21st September, 2014) When the first McDonald’s restaurant opened almost two decades ago in Johannesburg, a teenage boy named Thando Tshabalala was among […]
Africa / Aid / Health / Policy / South Africa
South Africa’s obesity crisis: the shape of things to come?
Published by Mosaic Science (9th September, 2014) When the first McDonald’s restaurant opened almost two decades ago in Johannesburg, a teenage boy named Thando Tshabalala was among the […]
Africa / Rwanda / South Africa
Assassins linked to Kagame regime
Published by The Independent (30th August, 2014) Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa had only been in South Africa for a few months when, returning home from a shopping trip with […]
Africa / Aid / United States / World
When will our politicians realise Africa has changed?
Published by The Independent (4th August, 2014) The dominant headlines out of Africa are as depressing as always in the Western media: a terrifying disease on the rampage, […]
Africa / Aid / Kenya
The folly of the 0.7% foreign-aid solution
Published by the Wall Street Journal (10th July, 2014) Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki won global applause when he introduced free primary-school education over a decade ago. Who could […]
Africa / Egypt
One among many, snared by a brutal regime
Published by The Independent on Sunday (29th June, 2014) Yara Sallam was one of the most inspirational activists I met amid the Arab Spring uprisings. As Tahrir Square […]
Africa / Congo
Virunga is saved but Africa’s wildlife is being encircled sliver by sliver
Published by The Guardian (13th June, 2014) It seems incredible anyone could contemplate drilling for oil in Virunga. Not only is this sprawling national park the oldest in […]
Africa / Egypt
Spinning for Sisi? Blair and Campbell accused of links to regime
Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st June, 2013) Victims of last year’s military coup in Egypt have accused Tony Blair and his former spin doctor Alastair Campbell […]