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 / Zimbabwe
The Crocodile shows his teeth
Published by The i paper (20th November, 2017) So farewell then, Robert Mugabe. The situation in Zimbabwe remains fluid after the carefully planned coup that claims not to […]
Africa / Aid / Rwanda
Why does Rwanda still get British aid?
Published by The Times (31st August, 2017) Diane Rwigara is a brave woman. Her industrialist father died in what she believes was a politically inspired car crash. Yet […]
Africa / Liberia / Technology / United States / World
Trump is debasing democracy the world over
Published by CapX (27th July, 2017) When I was in Liberia three years ago covering the ebola epidemic, I was amazed to discover the depth of antipathy many […]
Africa / Aid / Rwanda
‘Donor darling’ despot falsifies poverty numbers and sends hitmen to Britain
Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd July, 2017) Emmanuel Gasakure could have enjoyed a comfortable life as a cardiologist in France. But when his native Rwanda was […]
Africa / Aid / Disability / Health / Policy / Rwanda / South Sudan / Technology
Print your own body parts
Published by Mosaic Science, The Observer & The Atlantic (19th February, 2017) John Nhial was barely a teenager when he was grabbed by a Sudanese guerrilla army and […]
Aid / Politics
The dirty dozen
Published by The Daily Mail (15th April 2016) Britain’s foreign aid budget keeps rising. Currently at £12 billion a year, it is due to soar during David Cameron’s two […]
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 […]
Iraq / Politics
Tony Blair has moved beyond parody
Published by The Independent (16th June, 2014) Please forgive me. I know we should ignore his latest attention-seeking outburst, like a kind parent might turn their back on […]
Africa / Rwanda / South Africa
Kagame’s enemies have a strange habit of dying
Published in The Independent (January 3rd, 2014) Patrick Karegeya knew Paul Kagame well. The pair went to school together, worked alongside each other in Ugandan intelligence and then […]