Ozone is a quiet place these days. Ever since the US embassy in Khartoum warned its citizens to avoid places where expats tended to gather there have been fewer white faces here at the world's best coffeeshop on a......more
Rob Crilly - African Safari
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Lunch in Kisumu
Fish and chips at Kisumu's Imperial Hotel. With condiments So Friday saw me in Kisumu, on the shores of Lake Victoria, and I'm a great believer in the Catholic/Luo tradition of taking fish for my lunch on such occasions. OK......more
Urban Hunger in Nairobi's Slums
John Kilonzo and his wife Lucia Kamene with their young daughter Esther in the miserable slum of Mathare In his tiny one-room shack in a Kenyan slum, John Kilonzo and his family are the new faces of urban poverty -......more
Guilt by Emigration
Ugali and cabbage. Mmmm For much of the 1980s I simply refused to smile. My country was being wrecked by Thatcherism, the pits were shut down and four million people were thrown on the scrapheap. The least I could do......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
Feeding Africa
Julius Njoroge Kinuthia and his biotech bananas The biotech debate has been rumbling along nicely in Africa recently. A couple of days ago William Ruto, Kenya's agriculture minister, said he planned to allow the planting of genetically modified crops as......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...