Richard Dowden

Articles by Richard Dowden

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Lives on the line

  • 23 July 2009
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Will the world recession return African economies to their knees? Not if China has anything to do with it. This is one friendship that stands to flourish through the hard times.

Dinner with Tutu and a day with the Barmy Army

  • 11 September 2008

"You were wonderful," beamed the archbishop, thanking the audience for their support in the anti-apartheid struggle. Several looked uneasily into their napkins

Blood, bullets and ice

  • 29 January 2007

Observations on diamonds

It's good to talk - even better to sell

  • 17 October 2005

Africa is changing fast. Aid and debt relief may help, but mobile phones and trade with China are proving even more vital

To save Africa we must listen to it

  • 14 March 2005

Africa special: the big picture - Their fault or our fault? The blame game doesn't help. More important is our attitude: we must now acknowledge that Africa will make its own future

African patience helps Mugabe

  • 15 December 2003

Observations on the Commonwealth summit

The root of all evil. Robert Mugabe may be a bad man but, in the list of recent human rights abusers in Africa, it is absurd to put him in the top league. And like all pin-up Mr Evils, he is the product of political processes. By Richard Dowden

  • 01 September 2003
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Brothers Under the Skin: travels in tyranny Christopher Hope Macmillan, 280pp, £17.99 ISBN 1405005556

The Brits really are superior

  • 28 April 2003

Richard Dowden explains why the American forces, which operate like the German army and gear everything to military might, will make bad peacekeepers in Iraq

Our strange friends in the south

  • 21 April 2003

Only four African countries supported the war, and their leaders all have a taste for invading their neighbours. Richard Dowden fears they will be tempted to indulge it

Swaziland's conquering heroines

  • 19 August 2002

As world leaders descend on southern Africa to debate global ills, the continent faces its greatest ever catastrophe. Richard Dowden talks to HIV-positive women determined to change the world before they die

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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