There was little rhyme nor reason to my book buying before moving to the Middle East. My mind and reading were still rather engaged with Sudan, and so I tended to pick up whatever I spotted in second hand book......more
Rob Crilly - African Safari: October 2009 Archives
The Story Changes, Sometimes
A few weeks ago I posted that it was time for a change after living for five years in Africa. The same stories were coming around again and again and it was time to look for new stories in a......more
Darfur: A New Deadly Chapter... Or Maybe Not
The Independent's splash makes for powerful reading...The Lord's Resistance Army, one of the most feared guerrilla groups in Africa, has moved into Darfur, one of the continent's most troubled regions, intelligence sources in Sudan say.The unexpected move by the LRA......more
Bussmann's War
The problem with books on Africa - and writing about the continent in general - is that they tend to take themselves rather too seriously. Po-faced is apparently the best way to observe the continent's daily struggles with war, famine......more
Air Miles and God
The Archbishop of Canterbury has waded into the air miles debate.In an interview with The Times, Dr Rowan Williams said that families needed to respond to the threat of climate change by changing their shopping habits and adjusting their diets to......more
A Black and White War on the Dark Continent
No-one reported the second press release:Shegeg Karo village in North Darfur was bombed repeatedly by an Antonov aircraft on Sunday, May 4th. The bombing happened between 2-3pm, not at 4pm as reported in the May 5 press release from “Darfur......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...