Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st July, 2018) A few days after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, I entered the ransacked residence of the British ambassador to […]
Africa / Aid / Rwanda
Deal is an own goal
Published by The Sun (11th June, 2018) Paul Kagame is one of the world’s most ruthless dictators. He runs a nasty one-party state in Rwanda that crushes dissent […]
Africa / Aid / South Sudan / Uganda
The foreign aid ghost camps
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd June, 2018) When United Nations chief Antonio Guterres begged the world to help Uganda deal with ‘the biggest refugee exodus in Africa […]
Africa / Aid / Rwanda
Deal that makes a mockery of fair play
Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th May, 2018) After a decade writing about the aid industry, I thought I had seen it all with the daft projects, […]
Africa / Rwanda
Rwanda deserves to be condemned as much as Russia
Published by The Times (14th March, 2018) After a hard week working as a mental health nurse manager, Noble Marara was relaxing at home with his family when […]
Africa / Aid / South Africa
Shame of Bono’s charity bullies
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th March, 2018) Workers at an organisation founded by U2 singer Bono have been subjected to a ‘toxic’ culture of bullying and […]
Africa / Ethiopia / South Africa / Zimbabwe
Winds of change blowing across Africa
Published by The ipaper (19th February, 2018) Nelson Mandela and Jacob Zuma share some things in common. Both were key figures in the anti-apartheid struggle with the African […]
Africa / Environment / Policy / South Africa
Water wars as day zero looms
Published by Mail on Sunday (18th February, 2018) The vista could hardly be more barren or forbidding – a parched sandy landscape, baking beneath the afternoon sun, broken […]
Africa / Mali / United States / World
As our narrative on Africa shrinks, the continent rises
Published by The i paper (15th January, 2018) For a brief moment Donald Trump sounded presidential on Friday as he signed a proclamation to mark the public holiday […]
Africa / Liberia
West Africa offered reasons to be cheerful in 2017
Published by The Times (1st January, 2018) George Weah, the former world footballer of the year, has achieved his great goal by winning the presidency of Liberia. There […]
Africa / Arts / Books / Congo / Equatorial Guinea / General / Ivory Coast / Libya / Nigeria
A well-trodden journey into the heart of darkness
Published by The Times (30th December, 2017) Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon (Head of Zeus) I came to this book with enthusiasm. The author […]