Published by The Times (5th July, 2023) Somalia is a shattered country associated with chaos, conflict and piracy, host to an Islamist terrorist group described by a senior […]
Africa / Aid
Wasteful and misguided: what the new aid minister really thinks about the £14bn we send abroad each year
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th May, 2019) The new International Development Secretary has admitted that ‘not a great deal has been achieved’ with foreign aid, The Mail […]
Health / Policy / United States / World
America’s public health enemy No 1
Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st October, 2017) When Patsy Stinchfield was a young nurse practitioner three decades ago, her home town in the US Midwest was […]
Africa / Aid / Kenya
Vultures of the famine
Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th March, 2017) Emmanuel Ayapar is three years old and can no longer walk. The flesh on his legs, which dangle from […]
Aid / Politics
Behind the fine words, corruption festers
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th February, 2017) So now it is official: Adam Smith International, Britain’s biggest specialist aid contractor, engaged in dirty tricks to dupe […]
Africa / Aid / Politics / Somalia
Revealed: How Britain pours £568m into war-torn Somalia despite ‘certain’ risk it will be stolen and used to fund terrorism
Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th December, 2016) The Government is pumping more than half a billion pounds of aid into war-torn Somalia – despite accepting there […]
Aid / Politics
Exposed: how foreign aid giant conned MPs with fake evidence
Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th December, 2016) Fat cat foreign aid contractors paid millions by the taxpayer tried to deceive MPs and protect their lucrative business […]
Africa / Arts / Books / Somalia / South Africa
One refugee’s tale of hope from misery
Published by The Observer (4th January, 2014) A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg (Jonathan Cape) Asad Abdullahi was eight years old when he awoke one day […]
Aid / Technology
Time for BBC to ditch the red noses
Published in the Daily Mail (December 9th, 2013) From the moment Comic Relief was launched in a Sudanese refugee camp on Christmas Day 28 years ago, the country’s […]
Africa / Kenya / Somalia / Somaliland
Myths, murder and militancy
Published in The Independent (September 24th, 2013) For two years, Kenyans have been bracing themselves for the barbarism we have just witnessed in Nairobi. Ever since their army […]
Africa / Aid / Ethiopia
Foreign aid: the final insult
Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 26th, 2013) It is hard to think of many more blessed spots on Earth than the Gambella region of Ethiopia, with […]