The wheels of justice turn slowly, they say. And sometimes they don’t turn at all, until something or someone sends them spinning.
Jon Snow
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…
To mark the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has released photographs depicting the lives of survivors. These pictures come straight from DFID, and are not a product of Channel 4 News journalism, but they do tell an interesting tale of those who suffered, survived and have had…
All journalists have sources, but some sources become friends. For me, one such was Alison Des Forges, a historian of Rwanda. I happened to be living in Kigali when the genocide started in 1994.