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Why Chinua Achebe embodied Africa’s struggles
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, whose death has been announced, was the father of modern African writing. International Editor Lindsey Hilsum looks back on his remarkable achievements.
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More like a summer festival than the ‘Turkish spring’: Lindsey Hilsum reports from Istanbul on the continued protests and asks just what the government can do to appease the people on the streets.
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, whose death has been announced, was the father of modern African writing. International Editor Lindsey Hilsum looks back on his remarkable achievements.
With rumours of vote-rigging marring Kenya’s elections, will the close-run result lead to a repeat of violence seen the last time, asks Lindsey Hilsum.
Westerners should not class Africans by their tribe as this shows colonial thinking – but this is exactly how many of them class themselves, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
As seven French tourists are kidnapped in Cameroon, International Editor Lindsey Hilsum asks if groups linked to al-Qaeda are implementing a widening war against the west.
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum hears the brutal and distressing testimony of those who lived through the rule of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb in Gao.
Thousands fill the streets of Gao cheering Malian troops and the French forces who led the advance. International Editor Lindsey Hilsum, the first British journalist there, witnessed the jubilation.
The Islamist stronghold Gao has been retaken by French special forces. Our International Editor Lindsey HIlsum is the only British journalist with the Malians now trying to hold the area.
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum is the first British journalist to enter the recaptured Malian town of Diabaly with French troops.
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from Nioni, Mali, on the fear that the Algerian hostage crisis marks a new level of terror which could sweep Mali.
The decision by France to intervene in Mali puts the lives of French hostages in grave danger, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
As world leaders assemble in Morocco, opposition leaders question the US decision to designate the Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra as terrorists. Lindsey Hilsum reports from Marrakech.
China’s ruling elite fear democracy would be too messy in a country of 1.3 billion people, but Lindsey Hilsum asks if continued communism could prove even messier in the end?
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from China ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th Party Congress in Beijing, 8 – 15 November.
A year after Gadaffi’s capture and death, International Editor Lindsey Hilsum looks at the legacy of his rule and the prospects for the country since his demise.