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But you can't take it with you…
As we sweat ourselves through what is promised to be the most painful UK budget in thirty years, there is a salutary tale from far afield.
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Lusaka deal to boost landlocked Africa
Why is Africa poor? Here’s one reason – to ship copper from Zambia to a port in South Africa (the nearest) takes three weeks and costs $6,000 per week. The same journey in Europe takes 48 hours and costs a fraction of that. Bureaucratic border crossing, rotten and rotting railways, disintegrating roads… They all speak…
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Why we'd be broke without fixers
When foreign journalists work abroad, our secret weapon is the local journalist we work with. We call them fixers for good reason. Without them we’d be broke. We have them lined up, ready for action, right across the globe. “Secret” weapon being the operative word, because these guys work behind the scenes, making stuff happen.…
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Thank you to those behind the camera
News of the type the foreign correspondents are too modest to blog about: Channel 4 News has scooped the prestigious Royal Television Society award for best International News Coverage. The entry? Jonathan Miller‘s reporting on the Congo crisis last autumn. His team there were Senior Foreign Producer (now C4 News Foreign Editor) Ben de Pear and Cameraman…