The British professor fighting to save Africa’s elephants
Published in The Mail on Sunday (March 24th, 2013) As we set off from our overnight camp in the jungle,... Read Full Article
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Music is vital to political struggle across Africa – not just in Mali
Published in The Observer (27th January, 2013) At dinner last month after a concert by the Congolese rapper Baloji, I... Read Full Article
The man who turned amorality into an art form
Published in The Daily Mail (January 12th, 2013) When Tony Blair visited Beijing a few weeks ago to open a... Read Full Article
Gaza grabs the headlines as Congo once more descends into chaos
Published in The Observer (November 25th, 2012) Once again, the apparently insoluble struggle between Israel and Palestine has flared up... Read Full Article
A warning shot to the world’s despots
Published in The Independent (April 27th, 2012) The evidence was gruesome. One witness told how he watched his sister being... Read Full Article
Monster behind genocide and rape squads
Published in the Daily Mail (July 27th, 2011) Women and children – desperately sick and weak after months on the... Read Full Article
The corrosive legacy of Live Aid
Published in the Daily Mail (June 4th, 2011) Like most people of my generation, I can still recall with utmost... Read Full Article
Stop the flow of cash to Rwanda’s despotic regime
Published in The Times (May 23rd, 2011) Somehow, we never seem to learn. This year, we have seen seismic uprisings... Read Full Article
The dark shadows that stain the new darling of Africa
Published in The Independent (November 27th, 2009) There are few things that unite Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron,... Read Full Article
False hopes and phoney democracy
Published in The Independent (July 15th, 2009) And so the charade begins once again. A state ripped apart by war,... Read Full Article