Rob Crilly - African Safari: March 2009 Archives

 The Foreign Correspondents Association of East Africa is holding a photo exhibition of the best snaps from the past year. My pic from Kibera, during last year's election violence, has made it in. Kids there invented a new game after......more

I bought The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars more than four years ago when I was newly arrived in East Africa. I skimmed through it before a trip I did to Rumbek, but its dense text put me off......more

Africa is a big continent. The road network is not good. The rail network is non-existent. Getting from A to B can be very expensive.Last week one of my newspapers asked me to go to Tanzania. They gave me the......more

This trip was a bit of a punt. We knew the ICC decision was coming, but no-one knew when. George Clooney and Nick Kristof took a gamble and were a week or so too early. Others in Nairobi left it......more

So you're a paediatrician who volunteers for MSF. You go to Darfur and ...Beyond his work as a healer, Erlich was able to help document the genocide by providing children in the camps with paper and crayons they used to......more

Back into another wait and see phase here in Khartoum. We had the ICC, followed by the expulsions of 13 international NGOs and action against three local agencies. President Bashir made speech after speech, and was rarely off the TV.......more

So we've already had one round of punch and counter punch with the ICC's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir followed by his (and I'm told it came directly from the president) expulsion of 13 international charities.......more

    The fallout from Sudan's decision to expel 13 international charities and shut down four local ones continues. Millions of people will be without water, food and medicine unless or until the agencies who remain in Darfur can step......more

 Aid officials in Sudan used to tell me their humanitarian operation was suffering death by a thousand cuts. They struggled to get personnel and equipment into the country, local staff were expected to inform on their employers, and NGOs were......more

Only about one par made it into The Times story today so the whole thing is posted below. There may be more NGOs on way out. Diplomats also braced for expulsions today - they take longer to arrange. And what about the......more

Foreign aid workers have been ordered out of key locations across Darfur as the Sudanese Government flexes its muscles before a decision today by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on whether to charge President al-Bashir with war crimes.The six NGOs......more

We're all set. My email inbox is filling up with contact details of Darfur activists available for interview, NGOs are being booted out of camps and I have stocked up on provisions (Maryland cookies, Laughing Cow cheese triangles, and water,......more

We bumped out of the police post well after dark. Our little convoy of three armoured personnel carriers and two bullet-proof Land Cruisers bumped off towards Abu Shouk camp, home to about 50,000 displaced people just outside el Fasher, capital......more