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World view - Lindsey Hilsum reports on noisy diplomacy in Darfur
- 06 September 2004
In Darfur, both sides play the diplomatic game. The rebels' best suit is the suffering of their people. The government's is that international intervention failed spectacularly in Iraq
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World view - Michela Wrong honours an African leader
- 16 August 2004
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When war with Ethiopia started anew, a generation of Eritreans realised they'd spent most of their life fighting for a cause and seen it triumph, only to watch another conflict emerge
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World view - Lindsey Hilsum holds out a slim hope for Dafur
- 09 August 2004
There is something to be done in Darfur. The problem is that we are so addicted to quick-fix scenarios that we think a diplomatic solution which may take years to achieve is no good
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World view - Michela Wrong celebrates a new Kenya
- 02 August 2004
The corruption, the poverty and the potholes in the roads are still there. Yet on my latest visit to Kenya, I was more excited than ever before. The country has awoken from its torpor
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World view - Lindsey Hilsum on Rwanda and a nude calendar
- 26 July 2004
Eighty per cent of the women and girls who survived the genocide in Rwanda were raped. At least half of them are now HIV-positive. Can a nude calendar help their cause?
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World view - Lindsey Hilsum hears that Saddam is a US agent
- 12 July 2004
Many Iraqis believe that Saddam and the Americans are somehow in league against them. These are both my enemies, runs the logic, so they must be each other's friend
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World view - Lindsey Hilsum wants Europe to help the Middle East
- 14 June 2004
The Americans claim to want to nurture reform in the Arab world, yet they ban the tiny Gulf state of Qatar from a meeting on the region because it hosts al-Jazeera
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World view - Michela Wrong doubts Bob Geldof can help Africa
- 07 June 2004
Since the planes crashed into the twin towers, African countries have known that to receive western aid, they must be seen as furthering western security interests
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World view - Lindsey Hilsum questions the Israelis about Rafah
- 31 May 2004
I rang to ask the Israel Defence Forces why they had destroyed houses in parts of Rafah. No houses had been destroyed, they said. So how come I was standing on a pile of rubble?
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World view - Michela Wrong has mixed feelings about charity
- 24 May 2004
By providing food that averts a famine, charities protect dictators from the people's wrath. So is it best to cut out the middleman and help individual Africans directly?
