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The invisible enemy
29 November 1993 • 15,670 words • Reportage & Criticism
Route Ten in western Cambodia leads from the provincial capital, Battambang, the country’s second largest city, to mountains near the Thai border where a no-go… more»
Mass graves old and new
15 October 2004 • 2,228 words • Reportage & Criticism
Not long ago I took time off from the round of aid agencies and government departments in Khartoum to follow the road north, past the… more»
The trial of the Derg in Ethiopia
1996 • 10,792 words • Reportage & Criticism
In late 1994—and again in 1995—I travelled to Addis Ababa to report on the trial of the Derg, the former rulers of Ethiopia. The trial… more»
Disaster in Darfur
12 August 2004 • 3,948 words • Reportage & Criticism
Darfur is a 160,000-square-mile expanse of desert and savannah, an area the size of Texas or Spain, with five or six million inhabitants, that spreads… more»
Africa’s big men in fact and fiction
23 March 1998 • 858 words • City of Words
At the launch party for The Last King of Scotland, Giles Foden’s novel… more»
Apologies to the Africans
13 April 1998 • 997 words • City of Words
The English are famous for saying sorry, for apologising at the drop of a hat (or even when we drop a hat). It doesn’t mean we… more»
Where are the heroes of humanitarianism?
2 March 1997 • 1,449 words • City of Words
Last week Kofi Annan, the recently-appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations, visited London… more»
1996: Why Pol Pot will never go on trial
7 July 1996 • 1,003 words • City of Words
Even if I had captured him myself, if I’d cornered Saloth Sar—a.k.a. Pol… more»
Children at arms
25 January 1999 • 3,767 words • City of Words
In the 1980s the standard image to emerge from the world’s disaster zones was a skeletal child with despairing eyes, clutching the hand of an… more»
An African Nuremberg
2 October 1995 • 12,592 words • Reportage & Criticism
In Addis Ababa, on the thirteenth of December 1994, a blue bus with curtained windows, escorted by a motorcycle outrider and a pair of glinting all-terrain vehicles,… more»
