Lindsey Hilsum
UK arrests one of Rwanda’s most senior military officers
The detention of General Emmanuel Karake Karenzi will strain relationships between Rwanda and the UK. He is expected to go before a court on Thursday.
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Lindsey Hilsum
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Lindsey Hilsum
‘Marlboro Man’ Belmokhtar killed – but the jihadi threat is growing
The killing near Benghazi of Mokhtar Belmokhtar, al-Qaeda’s top man in north Africa, is unlikely to quell the rising jihadi movement in Libya and the surrounding region.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Risks and lies on the road to Europe
The African migrants I met in the Misrata detention centre have a lot in common with journalists and politicians – just look at their attitude to risk and their relationship with the truth.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Do you blame the migrant men in Misrata?
In the hierachy of sympathy, young African men come right at the bottom. Migrant children or women might be victims, but men? They can look after themselves.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Burundi: memories of a coup as a young journalist
As the steps were about to be wheeled away, I ran across the tarmac and just made the plane. I might be 10 days late but I would get my story out after all.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Ignoring Boko Haram could be Nigeria’s greatest mistake
Goodluck Jonathan has acted as if Boko Haram is a minor irritant rather than an existential threat. It may be his greatest misjudgment.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Murdered in the fight to build a democratic Libya
18-year-old Libyan civil society activist Tawfik Bensaud was killed on Friday, probably by Islamists. His friends are now struggling to keep faith in the democratic state they dream of.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Poverty is at the root of west Africa’s ebola crisis
The fact that a Cobra meeting is being held on Wednesday is the reason the deadly disease is unlikely to take hold in the UK. It also explains why it has spread so fast in west Africa.
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Lindsey Hilsum
William Hague, Angelina Jolie and British imperial decline
There was a reason why outgoing foreign secretary William Hague teamed up with the film star in the campaign to end warzone rape.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Salwa Bugaighis: Libyan human rights activist who took on Gaddafi
The Libyan human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis has been shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in Benghazi on the day of the country’s general election.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Why we must recognise the needs of the children of rape
This week’s Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict must show that helping the children of rape is as important as acknowledging the suffering of their mothers.
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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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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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Lindsey Hilsum
After Westgate, ‘the Somalis and Muslims take all the blame’
In Nairobi’s ‘Little Mogadishu’ district, many people fear that Somalis will collectively be expected to shoulder the blame for the Westgate attack.