India sends rockets into space. So does it need our £210m aid?
Published by The Sun (13th February, 2015) Another day, another damning report into Britain’s great aid giveaway. It is almost... Read Full Article
Nigeria
A change of fortune for Nigeria’s president?
Published by The Independent (17th January, 2015) Lawrence Ebele Jonathan was a canoe-maker, struggling to survive in the Delta region... Read Full Article
My hero of 2014 sacrificed herself to save countless others
Published by The Independent (29th December, 2014) News is by nature a grim business, the most terrible and tragic tales... Read Full Article
Inside the migrant jails of Fortress Europe
Published by al-Jazeera (16th December, 2014) Travelling around Libya in those days when pictures of a preening Muammar Gaddafi loomed... Read Full Article
Boko Haram, hashtag activism & how the West can really help Nigeria
Published by The Independent (12th May, 2014) Now it’s official: the Western world is horrified about the kidnapping of more... Read Full Article
Africa is refuting the usual economic pessimism
Published by The Wall Street Journal (16th April, 2014) The terrorist bombing that killed 71 people in Nigeria’s capital Monday... Read Full Article
The tide is turning against homophobia
Published in The Guardian (December 27th, 2013) In Uganda, two people who have sex could end up serving life sentences... Read Full Article
A conflict crying out for more attention – and less violence
Published in The Independent (October 1st, 2013) The murder of Saturday lunchtime shoppers in a Nairobi shopping centre grabbed global... Read Full Article
Britain’s pathetic response to the rise of a global power
Published in The Guardian (August 9th, 2013) Despite their military name, it is hard to see how an eight-strong delegation... Read Full Article
Support journalists, not countries that jail them
Published in The Guardian (August 5th, 2013) ‘I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that... Read Full Article