Afua Hirsch
NAIROBI (Kenya): When a group of masked and heavily armed fighters rampaged through a Kenyan shopping centre last...
Published 29 Sep, 2013 07:02am
LONDON: Nelson Mandela is ‘a hero for the world’, Barack Obama said on Thursday adding that his thoughts are ...
Published 29 Jun, 2013 07:36am
SYMBOLISM will hang heavy this weekend when Barack Obama visits Soweto, the cradle of South Africa’s black...
Published 26 Jun, 2013 07:18am
TIMBUKTU: There is a proverb in Timbuktu, the legendary medieval city in Mali's desert, that says: “The ink of a...
Published 22 May, 2013 04:55am
THE conflict in Mali could be creating a “ticking time bomb” for neighbouring Western Sahara, the UN secretary general has warned, amid growing concern about the threat of terrorism in west and north Africa.
Published 11 Apr, 2013 05:00am
BAMAKO, Oct 30: Islamist rebels will attack Mali’s capital city if international military intervention is launched to regain control of the country’s north, a senior member of an insurgent group closely linked to Al Qaeda has told the Guardian.
Published 31 Oct, 2012 12:10am
LONDON: First there was the golliwog, then there was black Barbie. Now the creators of a new talking doll say that after 140 years of racism and negative stereotyping, toys for black children have finally come of age with a doll that helps them to learn t
Published 07 Oct, 2012 03:14am
LAGOS: The Nigerian government has lost control of security, according to its own advisers, and lacks a coherent strategy to counter the threat of terrorism.
Published 27 Sep, 2012 02:56am
ISLAMIST extremists in northern Mali are facing a growing uprising as residents in the towns held by Al Qaeda-linked rebels launch a series of fight backs.
Published 19 Jul, 2012 02:16am
BAMAKO: Islamist groups are using their hold over key urban areas of Mali to recruit, arm and train growing numbers of fighters and could pose a threat to Europe within two years, government and security sources believe.
Published 14 Jul, 2012 02:33am
WEST AFRICAN nations are considering imminent military intervention in Mali amid growing fears that the country is about to become what one expert has dubbed “the next Somalia”.
Published 09 Jul, 2012 12:01am
It is the strange story of Hitler’s private pilot, a wandering English engineer and the first black woman or woman of any race for that matter to be qualified in building light planes
Published 17 Apr, 2012 12:02am
THESE days no self-respecting western reporter dares to describe anything potentially ‘primitive’ in Africa without a sophisticated disclaimer.
Published 17 Apr, 2012 12:00am
LONDON A “toxic” system for appointing the world`s most senior judges is fundamentally undermining the legitimacy of...
Published 10 Sep, 2010 12:00am
LONDON The heatwave, forest fires and drought in Russia and central Asia may be unprecedented in recent times. But...
Published 15 Aug, 2010 12:00am
THE billboard at the side of the dusty road offers what the land it stands on cannot provide a sack of grain, the ...
Published 03 Aug, 2010 12:00am
THE first review conference of the international criminal court (ICC) begins on Tuesday (June 1) in Kampala, Uganda,...
Published 01 Jun, 2010 12:00am
THE lord chancellor has been described in many ways through history, but one account stands out. “His position is...
Published 17 May, 2010 12:00am
THE UK government is trying to create a new form of secret trial that would introduce `fundamental unfairness` into...
Published 10 Mar, 2010 12:00am
LONDON With spectacular irony, fundamental rights and freedoms around the world were violated over the decade almost...
Published 19 Oct, 2009 12:00am
