Miro, Miro on the wall …Mirror of our tortured souls?
“Maybe this is what art does – exercises our present emotions with the consequences of other times experienced by the artist’s head and eye.”
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“Maybe this is what art does – exercises our present emotions with the consequences of other times experienced by the artist’s head and eye.”
Tens of thousands of people have already died in Somalia as the UN declares an official famine. A key figure leading the African Union’s efforts tells Channel 4 News “we’ll be burying children soon”.
A tearful Jerry Rawlings, Ghana’s former president, tells Jon Snow that “We’ll be burying lots of children soon” unless aid money and medical supplies are received to alleviate the Somalia famine.
An aid worker in Somalia, the centre of the East Africa drought crisis which has hit 12m people, tells Channel 4 News he fears “death on an epic, unimaginable scale” if more is not done.
The head of the United Nation’s refugee agency describes the drought in Somalia as the “worst humanitarian disaster” in the world and urges Kenya to build more camps, after touring the region.
Leading aid agencies launch an appeal to help 10 million people in the grip of Africa’s worst drought in decades, as Oxfam tells Channel 4 News soaring local food prices are compounding the crisis.
The hard-line Somali armed group al-Shabaab welcomes “Muslim and non-Muslim” foreign aid groups as the region suffers one of its worst droughts in 60 years.
The head of the UN in Somalia exclusively tells Channel 4 News he is “not sure the population can survive until the end of the year” unless urgent action is taken, amid the worst drought in 20 years.
The case is intriguing, partly because it provides some of the first indications that extremists in Somalia and Yemen may be linking up; and partly because Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame’s arrival for trial in New York around midnight on July 4th reignites the debate about the legal justification for flying military detainees into US jurisdiction from overseas.
A Somali man is taken to the US to face charges of assisting terror groups in Yemen and Somalia, after being detained on a US Navy ship for more than two months.
Donors including Bill Gates agree to give billions to vaccine programmes in the developing world, with Britain pledging nearly a third of the total. Tom Clarke looks at the lives that could be saved.
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.
I only met him once. I interviewed him in Nicaragua, in English. He spoke about 100 words of it, I would say – maybe more, but if so, he didn’t let on in our discussion.
Writer, columnist and girl power advocate Caitlin Moran on why she’s using her fame to campaign against FGM – and why celebrities trying to do the right thing get a harder time.
British pilots could be in action over Iraq again soon. Is the legal case for military action stronger than the last time around?