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The Government is set to pay out millions of pounds in compensation to former Guantanamo Bay detainees, following allegations the security services colluded in their torture abroad.
A British aid worker who was seized by gunmen in Somalia has been released and is “safe and well”.
A British aid worker with Save The Children has been kidnapped by gunmen in Somalia, our Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Jonathan Rugman writes.
A cameraman working for Channel 4 News captures Somalia’s brutal descent into anarchy, as International Editor Lindsey Hilsum explains.
If you’ve just been in Gaza, as I have, it’s quite hard to watch the spoof video made by a group of Israelis called Latma (it means “slap” in Hebrew slang) and distributed by the Israeli government press office, which has been posted on YouTube. The government has apologised now, but the damage is done. In…
An investigation for Channel 4 News reveals the story of a suicide bomber who grew up in Ealing before travelling to Somalia. Jonathan Rugman follows the path taken by newly radicalised youths.
In December 1982, I moved to Kenya. For three years I worked for UNICEF, before becoming a journalist based in Nairobi. Since I left in 1989, I’ve visited every year or so, but this is the first time I’ve been back to the arid north where Samburu, Turkana, Pokot and other people herd their cattle,…
Here’s an African love story. Adebe married her childhood sweetheart, Daniel, in Addis Ababa when she was 22. The trouble was, although Daniel was born in Ethiopia, he was of Eritrean stock, and when the two countries went to war, he was deported to Asmara, the Eritrean capital, where he was forced to join the…
I am told the Americans are in the midst of a major rethink of their policy towards Somalia, as fighting within the last few days threatens to topple the government in Mogadishu, such as it exists.
Jon Snow
A balmy bank holiday weekend for sailing. Despite the fact that my cousin Peter Snow has had a boat ever since I can remember, I don’t set sail with him enough. This weekend reminded me of both the joys and perils of sailing. A thousand sails swept along the Solent in brisk winds. Within hours…
Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir must be on Red Bull – or maybe it just takes an indictment from the International Criminal Court to give you wings. Eritrea on Monday. Yesterday, embraced by President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo. Today, it was reported he was off to Ethiopia, before he actually turned up in Libya for…
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.
The Washington Post has decided to put the issue of Somali jihadists on its front page. Somewhat belatedly – National Public Radio and ABC News were ahead of the Post, and this doesn’t take us that much further than a Jamestown Foundation report in January. But in a way it is a bigger deal over…
I’ve just come up for air after several weeks investigating claims that dozens of Islamic extremists have returned to Britain from training camps in Somalia. The security services believe that they may end up using the skills they have learned in Somalia to commit acts of terror here in the UK.