Blog posts tagged "Africa"

November 29, 2011 1:40 pm 2 Comments

Lindsey contemplates one of the major questions facing Africa: whether China's influence in the continent a good thing.

May 27, 2011 3:35 pm 2 Comments

With uprisings sweeping the Middle East, and fugitive killers like Osama bin Laden and Ratko Mladic captured, this is a historic year. Lindsey Hilsum looks at the historic stories that are being missed.

October 1, 2010 5:49 pm No Comments

International Editor Lindsey Hilsum on the grim reality of what lies behind today's report on genocide in the Congo.

August 26, 2010 12:22 pm 4 Comments

The mass rape of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to be systematic, rather than opportunistic, writes International Editor Lindsey Hilsum. How can we stop it?

June 9, 2010 6:00 pm No Comments

On his return from Johannesburg, Channel 4 News foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller blogs that South Africa's World Cup is a recognition of what the African continent has brought to football.

October 7, 2009 1:08 pm 2 Comments

We’ve received the following posting from Dr Catherine Maternowska, who works in the Mombasa hospital featured in last month’s film on child sex abuse in Kenya. The hope among the hospital’s staff is that the film – and Catherine’s blog – will promote awareness, both at home and abroad, of the problems Kenyan children face. [...]

October 1, 2009 2:05 pm 4 Comments

In response to viewers’ messages requesting further information on how to get involved with charities working with Kenya, following our report on child sex abuse in that country, we can post the following details: KENYAN ORGANISATIONS FIGHTING AGAINST CHILD SEX ABUSE Offers of help to the sexual violence clinic at Mombasa Coast General Hospital should [...]

September 28, 2009 4:25 pm 2 Comments

Many thanks to all of you for your responses to our film. I can assure you, it was just as harrowing a film to make as it was to watch. Several of you have asked what you can do about the awful problems we highlighted in Kenya. We will post details of appropriate organisations on [...]

September 24, 2009 1:42 pm 42 Comments

Kenya’s beaches are the stuff holiday brochures are made of – mile after mile of glistening white sand, kissed by equatorial sun. Tourism is a major money spinner for one of the world’s poorest countries, but Kenya’s tropical paradise hides a dark secret. We have been on a harrowing journey – from nightclubs where European [...]

July 13, 2009 5:03 pm 4 Comments

I am told the Americans are in the midst of a major rethink of their policy towards Somalia, as fighting within the last few days threatens to topple the government in Mogadishu, such as it exists.