World Affairs: Africa

‘‘I’m not Nelson Mandela’’

Morgan Tsvangirai is on tour promoting the New Zimbabwe, but can he honestly bury the past and build a better future?

Democracy grows in

Observations on Somalia

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We all need to flush

Diarrhoea kills more children than Aids or malaria. But clean water supplies are only part of the solution.

Motorcycle diaries

Observations on Mali

Diary: Kate Hoey

Wanted: one army of love for Zimbabwe

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‘‘There may have been no water, but the province was awash with guns’’

Reporting of the conflict in Darfur in the western media reproduces the spurious ethnic categories of British colonialism. The story of the “Arab” presence in Sudan is much more complicated

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The next Atlantis

Observations on carbon neutrality

Romancing the stone

Observations on South Africa

Laboratory of Jihad

Saudi Arabia has become a laboratory of jihad, spreading poison throughout the Muslim world. Can reform save the land of the Prophet from extremism?

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Cont Mhlanga: The way I see it

The Zimbabwean playwright on love: of his wife, of the spiritual, of his country