After six years of violence, the war in Darfur is over, according to a man who should know. General Martin Luther Agwai was handed mission impossible two years ago - setting up the joint UN and AU peacekeeping job. In......more
Rob Crilly - African Safari: August 2009 Archives
Swashbuckling Adventurers
This from a recent exam sat by City University journalism students:In popular legend dating from the Crimean War to the Vietnam War, foreign correspondents had a reputation as swashbuckling adventurers. What is the workaday reality for foreign correspondents today? In......more
Junk Bonds
Interesting story in The Times yesterday, using the Big Mac as a new index of earning power.Tokyo workers have to spend only 12 minutes at their desks before they can buy a Big Mac for lunch, while their counterparts in......more
A Different Type of Food Security
There's no need to bore you with my frankly hilarious attempts at reintegrating into western, capitalist society. Yesterday I got to grips with London's Oyster card. Tomorrow I might try scanning my own groceries at Tesco. There are lots of......more
Dirty, Not Very Sexy Money
Cleared out my bedside table of five years of spare cash. There are torn notes from Ethiopia, Chad, Uganda and Tanzania. Smart colourful ones from Botswana, South Africa and Ghana. Assorted handfuls from Liberia, Sudan, Mozambique, Rwanda and the DRC.......more
Rob Crilly in Jerusalem
Rob Crilly is a freelance journalist based in Jerusalem writing for The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Mail. He spent...