Jon Snow
Pedalling away from 'one way street' media
In a hurry – this morning I have to give a lecture to the Westminster Media Forum and am still thinking about what I need to say…but Europe is on my mind.
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Blocks on reporting the Sri Lanka fighting
We obtained some disturbing footage of apparent attacks on Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka yesterday. The pictures – many of which we didn’t broadcast because they were too gruesome – showed rows of dead children, who had allegedly been killed by government shelling of the supposed “safe area” in the north of the island. Note…
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Dead aid to Africa's North-South Corridor?
DFID, the UK aid department, asked me to volunteer to come down here to Lusaka in Zambia to help “facilitate” the launch of the North-South Corridor project for which they and other donors have thus far raised $1.35bn. It involved four presidents, the head of the WTO, a DFID minister, an EU commissioner, international banks,…
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Lusaka deal to boost landlocked Africa
Why is Africa poor? Here’s one reason – to ship copper from Zambia to a port in South Africa (the nearest) takes three weeks and costs $6,000 per week. The same journey in Europe takes 48 hours and costs a fraction of that. Bureaucratic border crossing, rotten and rotting railways, disintegrating roads… They all speak…
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Botswana: the sharp edge of diamond slump
Here’s another country on the global recession’s front line: Botswana, hailed as the longest continuous multi-party democracy in Africa. Botswana is classified by some economists as an “upper middle-income” country, but the wealth is very unevenly spread, so – according to DFID – 49 per cent of the population lives on less than $2 a…
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Tanzania: President Kikwete's plea to Brown
Obscene would be putting it too strongly, but it did seem odd talking about dead African children amid the gilded Louis XIV interiors of Lancaster House last week. One of London’s finest townhouses, just across the road from Buckingham Palace, this is where Rhodesia’s independence from Britain was signed in 1979.
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Why we'd be broke without fixers
When foreign journalists work abroad, our secret weapon is the local journalist we work with. We call them fixers for good reason. Without them we’d be broke. We have them lined up, ready for action, right across the globe. “Secret” weapon being the operative word, because these guys work behind the scenes, making stuff happen.…