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World view - Michela Wrong sees desperation in Nairobi
- 06 December 2004
Africa's technological revolution seems the real thing. But it is just like Kenyan Cheddar: it has all the capacity to excite and seduce - only ultimately to madden and disappoint
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World view - Lindsey Hilsum reports from Fallujah
- 29 November 2004
I do not believe the American claim that they killed more than 1,200 insurgents in Fallujah. Return fire was sporadic and I saw few bodies. I suspect most insurgents fled
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World view - Michela Wrong
- 22 November 2004
Everyone is confident about Kenya's future - yet, close-up, the ingredients are there for the same Molotov cocktail that has exploded in Ivory Coast. By Michaela Wrong
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World view - Lindsey Hilsum reports from Fallujah
- 22 November 2004
If the US truly believes that the way to beat the insurgents is to destroy towns, much of central and northern Iraq will be turned to rubble
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World view - Lindsey Hilsum watches troops prepare for Fallujah
- 08 November 2004
The wall between the US marines' culture and the Iraqi world is almost impenetrable. The troops cannot recognise the little signs that someone really is a pilgrim or a merchant
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World view - Michela Wrong is tired of Big Man foreign policy
- 11 October 2004
Since colonial times, western policy in Africa has operated by wooing the local Big Man and ensuring he hits it off with one's own Big Man. This is then called looking at the Big Picture
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World view - Lindsey Hilsum explains Iraqi's sense of honour
- 04 October 2004
Iraqi women who work or go to university become the target of Islamists - but those who stay in traditional roles can be arrested by Americans seeking to pressurise their men
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World view - Michela Wrong despairs of Africa's red tape
- 27 September 2004
It takes 19 separate procedures to start a business in Chad, the world's ninth-poorest country, yet Australia and Canada get by with just two. Red tape is choking Africa, reports Michela Wrong
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World view - Lindsey Hilsum defends the cameras in Beslan
- 20 September 2004
Television journalists have been criticised for their coverage of the Beslan atrocity. What should we have done? Turned off the cameras and pretended it wasn't happening?
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World view - Michela Wrong introduces the Incontinent
- 13 September 2004
Are those who call themselves "war correspondents" really brave? Some are, and I would divide them into three categories: the Insane, the Ignorant and the Incontinent
