Alex Thomson
CAR: religious violence makes housemates of the archbishop and the imam
Heard the one about the Catholic archbishop and the imam who decided to move in together? It’s not a joke in the war-torn Central African Republic.
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Alex Thomson
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Lindsey Hilsum
Lindsey Hilsum’s international eye on the year ahead
Journalists make poor prophets, but January is the month when we all think about the year ahead, and the big picture.
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Lindsey Hilsum
‘I need to get the word out about what’s happening in South Sudan’
“I think we are on the verge of civil war,” said my friend Jok Madut Jok in South Sudan. Yesterday Jok saw 200 bodies in the barracks where the fighting started and 40 in the morgue of the hospital.
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Alex Thomson
Into the heart of Africa
Leaving from “toy-town” Paris, I travel into the Central African Republic – a country of bandits, gunmen, violent civil disorder, and darkness.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Dreaming of Europe, Africa’s migrants risk disease, rape and death
Migrants are risking unimaginable horror to escape the poverty of sub-Saharan Africa, travelling through Libya in search of Europe’s promised land.
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FactCheck: Whose ancestry is African, and who is in DNA denial?
A white supremacist, whose DNA test showed he was 14 per cent Sub-Saharan African, insists that the results are “statistical noise”. Could he be right?
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Lindsey Hilsum
Zimbabwe elections: Mugabe in power until he dies?
Despite appearing ever more out of touch with his people, 89-year-old Robert Mugabe looks unlikely to relinquish power just yet – no matter who wins the election.
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Lindsey Hilsum
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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Lindsey Hilsum
Mali: how will the city of Gao welcome the French?
We hope to be in Gao later today to witness how the French in Mali are greeted in the first major city to fall to them in this war.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Suddenly, the British government changes policy on Rwanda
The Foreign Office had been reluctant to blame President Kagame’s government for the surge in fighting in the east of the DR Congo. That changed when it emerged Rwanda was behind the M23 rebel group which seized Goma.
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Beware the dragon
Lindsey contemplates one of the major questions facing Africa: whether China’s influence in the continent a good thing.
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The history we're missing: stories in Africa
With uprisings sweeping the Middle East, and fugitive killers like Osama bin Laden and Ratko Mladic captured, this is a historic year. Lindsey Hilsum looks at the historic stories that are being missed.
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Congo: The worst war in the world
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum on the grim reality of what lies behind today’s report on genocide in the Congo.
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Congo rape: what should we do now?
The mass rape of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to be systematic, rather than opportunistic, writes International Editor Lindsey Hilsum. How can we stop it?
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'Africa has already won the World Cup'
On his return from Johannesburg, Channel 4 News foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller blogs that South Africa’s World Cup is a recognition of what the African continent has brought to football.