Blog posts tagged "Kenya"

September 16, 2009 3:03 pm No Comments

He was the most tenacious, even ruthless correspondent I ever worked against. In the 1970s Brian Barron and I chased down the grim regime of Uganda’s President Idi Amin. We also reported on Kenyatta’s funeral in Kenya, and much else beyond. In learning of his death today from cancer, I feel one of my coordinates [...]

April 8, 2009 7:18 pm 6 Comments

DFID, the UK aid department, asked me to volunteer to come down here to Lusaka in Zambia to help “facilitate” the launch of the North-South Corridor project for which they and other donors have thus far raised $1.35bn. It involved four presidents, the head of the WTO, a DFID minister, an EU commissioner, international banks, [...]