Registered user login:

World Affairs: Africa

Lead Feature

Time for action on aid

Time for action on aid

To increase economic parity worldwide, developed countries must live up to their commitments to streamline aid and remove barriers to trade writes the UN Millennium Campaign founder

In africa

Kindness of strangers

  • By Henry Sands
  • 27 November

Observations on crime

Healing DR Congo

  • By Heather Harvey
  • 20 November

What's the solution for DR Congo where rape is used as a weapon of war? Lessons might be learned by looking to Liberia, argues Heather Harvey

A planet in peril

  • By Phil Bloomer
  • 14 November

Oxfam's Phil Bloomer wonders whether the positive signals about a US change of direction on climate change under Obama will be met by the right response in Europe

The exodus

  • By Xan Rice
  • 06 November

The fighting in the Congo forces thousands to flee their homes, reports Xan Rice

The view from the top

  • By Peregrine Worsthorne
  • 06 November

The Anatomist: the Autobiography of Anthony Sampson
Politico's, 416pp, £19.99

Thinking about Cairo

  • By Rachel Aspden
  • 30 October

Chicago
Alaa al-Aswany
Fourth Estate, 342pp, £14.99

Feature

An odyssey in black and white

An odyssey in black and white

A season of vintage South African films takes us on an atmospheric - if occasionally bizarre - journey back through the dark days of apartheid

More in africa

The president, his church and the crocodiles

  • By Xan Rice
  • 23 October 2008

The past is a foreign country

  • By Harry Mount
  • 16 October 2008

Europe's first revolution

  • By Tom Holland
  • 09 October 2008

Mother of invention

  • By Barbara Gunnell
  • 02 October 2008

Hanging on a telephone

  • By Ed Hancox
  • 18 September 2008

Dinner with Tutu and a day with the Barmy Army

  • By Richard Dowden
  • 11 September 2008

The famous things they never said

  • By Michela Wrong
  • 04 September 2008

Quick Access to

Vote!

Should Darling have been bolder with the 45% tax rate?