10 | ALL of 22 results for "War"
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An explosion in the Strand
February 1996 • 894 words • City of Words
Like ten thousand other Londoners working, or idling, in the borderlands between the City and the West End, I quite often cross the intersection where… more»
Car wars
1 March 1999 • 1,239 words • City of Words
The last thing I saw before I rolled my bike and fell in the path of an oncoming truck was the statue of the gunner… more»
A nuclear wrestling match
1 June 1998 • 899 words • City of Words
In Baluchistan twenty-five years ago, in Pakistan’s wild west—where five nuclear devices were detonated last week—I and my school-friend Khalid found ourselves stranded for a day… more»
1998: A new war in Africa
15 June 1998 • 837 words • City of Words
It was a good week for small, nasty wars. In the Balkans ethnic cleansing by the government of Serbia provoked armed resistance on the part of… more»
In Angola, a kindling fire
February 1997 • 990 words • City of Words
Wars spring up like bush fires in sub-Saharan Africa, from the Horn to the Copper Belt. They are small by global standards, but not for… more»
In Khartoum and Jelalabad the misery goes on
25 August 1998 • 884 words • City of Words
The provincial city of Jelalabad, once the winter capital of Afghan kings, stands… more»
The untimely death of the warlord’s wife
22 December 1997 • 985 words • City of Words
Yesterday I was driving down Gitanga Road in Nairobi, across the intersection where… more»
The road to Abyei
1989 • 13,409 words • Reportage & Criticism
Mark drove us back from the party on Street Thirty-one in his new Land Rover pick-up, just shipped from Port Sudan. We took a wrong turning on Sharia el-Nil … more»
The Price of Survival
2017 • 230 words • Video
The Price of Survival follows the journey of Bapiny Tim Chol, a commander in the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Army, to his home in Unity State, on the frontline of the 1983-2005 north-south civil war in Sudan. The film-makers travelled two hundred miles on foot through rebel-held … 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»
