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Channel 4 News has gained access to a pioneering project in eastern Congo where soldiers who freely raped during the country’s civil war are rehabilitated.
Rebel fighters targeting Somali MPs have killed at least 31 people in a suicide attack. Jonathan Rugman reports on what has been described as an “indiscriminate” shoot-out.
Jon Snow
Is Union Carbide’s horrific environmental disaster of 1984 America’s ‘BP’? Yesterday’s minimal sentences passed down on eight former Carbide employees, did not include the then Chief Executive Warren Anderson. No one has ever acted upon the arrest warrant that was issued for his arrest. No one until yesterday was ever brought to book. America and…
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Sooner or later there was going to be a showdown somewhere in Africa over the continental-wide Christian backed attacks on homosexuality. It seems Malawi is it. The jailing with hard labour for fourteen years of Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza – after they declared their intention of sealing a civil union, has finally concentrated action…
Jon Snow
Do we ignore the dangers inherent in hysterical fundamentalism in all faiths at our peril? Jon Snow asks why religious fundamentalism is developing a stranglehold on societies across the world.
Jon Snow
He was the most tenacious, even ruthless correspondent I ever worked against. In the 1970s Brian Barron and I chased down the grim regime of Uganda’s President Idi Amin. We also reported on Kenyatta’s funeral in Kenya, and much else beyond. In learning of his death today from cancer, I feel one of my coordinates…
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
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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The Pope’s remarks outlawing condoms yet again, this time in a sermon delivered in Yaounde, Cameroon, call to mind an eerie experience we had on this programme next to a swimming pool in Kampala back in 2005.