Last year, while trying to pick the sixth book for my African Reading Challenge, I explained how I wanted a book that wasn't self-consciously a book about Africa. I wanted a story, a biography, a self-help guide, whatever, that just......more
Rob Crilly - African Safari
Recently in Ethiopia Category
Christmas in Somalia
African Safari heads off for a much-needed break in the land of the free coffee, casting an anxious glance over its shoulder at Somalia. The Ethiopians love to do stuff over Christmas (not Christmas, according to the Ethiopian calendar, which......more
My African Predictions for 2009
This year I lost $200 in bets on the US presidential election and remain committed to swimming naked to Tuti island in the middle of the Nile on my next visit to Khartoum. That is not enough to stop me......more
Ethiopian Famine Averted
Among many of the titbits of useful advice I picked up as I worked my way through Britain's regional newspapers was one that has caused me no end of trouble. "Rob," one of the old hands at The Herald......more
Saving Somalia
Children are among the guards at a warlord's home in Mogadishu In this part of the world it doesn't take long to spot the problem with international aid to Africa. Or maybe I should rephrase things. In this part of......more
31 very interesting things: 2. Warchild
[video:youtube:ekigsvTDJXo] Emmanuel Jal was eight when he was handed an AK-47 and told to fight for the southern Sudanese rebels of the SPLA. He escaped Sudan in a bag, smuggled out by Emma McCune, a British aid worker, on......more
Somalia's Only Hope for Peace?
Amnesty's hard-hitting report on human rights abuses in Somalia should make everyone stop and think. Mogadishu has long been a city of death and destruction (apart from a six-month period of quiet as the Islamic Courts imposed their own brand......more
And you can take your 24hr rolling news channel with you!
[video:youtube:Mvou7v8hiIM] News arrives that Ethiopia is cutting diplomatic relations with Qatar: The Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has decided to break off diplomatic relations with the State of Qatar. This decision has been taken after long observation......more
Teacher Faces Jail in Ethiopia after Exposing Paedophile
So you work tirelessly to expose paedophiles working in a children's charity village in Ethiopia. Your work helps convict one British sex abuser. And for your trouble you face being sent to prison on Friday, possibly for six months......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...