Nelson Mandela: rainbow statesman

By Syed Badrul AhsanIn these dangerous, uncertain times we live through, the absence of Nelson Mandela only makes our circumstances a little more parlous than they have been so far. By the time he died, Mandela did not wield political authority, but there was about...

The hazards of journalism in Africa

By Martin Plaut   Reporting in a war zone The war in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray, which erupted in November 2020, is probably the bloodiest current conflict in the world. It is also the least reported. Somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 people have...