Alex Thomson
His mother is dead. His father, listless, appears to have simply given up. We photograph him and give his exact location to Unicef officials. Several hours later they say they’ve lost the picture.
Alex Thomson
Channel 4 New Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson tracks down a British woman in the lawless Central African Republic. Only French troops can save her and her family from the men with machetes.
Alex Thomson
The French may be restoring some order, but there is still terror and tension in the capital of the Central African Republic as Christians and Muslims commit terrible violence against each other.
Alex Thomson
At the Don Bosco Catholic educational institute in Bangui, they frisk you for weapons at the door but still keep finding machetes here.
Alex Thomson
French soldiers are on the streets in the Central African Republic. But they cannot be everywhere: by day, Christian mobs still seek revenge, while the terror of the Seleka stalks at night.
Alex Thomson
Of course, Seleka leaders are around still in Bangui, the Central African Republic’s capital. One – pistol not very concealed – is living it large around our hotel buffet most days.
Alex Thomson
Since gunmen attacked this hospital patients won’t come here, and the presence of heavily armed African peacekeeping troops in the hospital grounds does not reassure them.
Alex Thomson
Doctors with scarce supplies are forced to help the Seleka militia responsible for much of the bloodshed. And as the UN warns of impending genocide, aid groups say the world must act.
Alex Thomson
Leaving from “toy-town” Paris, I travel into the Central African Republic – a country of bandits, gunmen, violent civil disorder, and darkness.
Alex Thomson
Out of time and soon out of office, the Afghan president-outgoing, Hamid Karzai, has just done exactly what Afghans and foreigners alike, never expected.
Alex Thomson
A doctor carries out a Caesarian section in the wreckage of Haiyan. But with supplies running low, how long can they hold out?
Alex Thomson
As it happened: the journey across the Philippines to reconnect a family divided by Typhoon Haiyan.
Alex Thomson
It has been some entry into the world for Inisto Barlas, born the day before the Typhoon Haiyan hit, made homeless on his second day of life.
Alex Thomson
Out in the remote areas of the Philippines, people aren’t concerned with how many have been killed in the Typhoon Haiyan – but with making sure they aren’t added to the number. Alex Thomson joined an airforce rescue mission.
Alex Thomson
“Devoid of human compassion”: the words of the prosecutor in the court martial of three British marines accused of murdering an Afghan prisoner.