09:04 UK time, Thursday, 16 May 2013
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Mandela's daughter "livid" about recent video of the 94 year old surrounded by ANC officials. http://t.co/M6MY3CvQVQ
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09:04 UK time, Thursday, 16 May 2013
Mandela's daughter "livid" about recent video of the 94 year old surrounded by ANC officials. http://t.co/M6MY3CvQVQ
17:14 UK time, Monday, 13 May 2013
More than $100,000 stolen from SA stadium after @justinbieber concert say police. Thieves chiselled through wall. http://t.co/1aa7vOErQ7
17:07 UK time, Monday, 13 May 2013
Beiber heist update... SA police spokeswoman tells me more than a million rand (£70,000) stolen from FNB stadium after Sunday's pop concert.
15:16 UK time, Monday, 13 May 2013
Reports of "daring heist" at stadium in Johannesburg straight after hosting Justin Beiber concert. Not clear how much stolen.
10:50 UK time, Saturday, 11 May 2013
Last night I went for a stroll in Mogadishu.
For twenty-odd years the dusty streets of this infamously dangerous city have emptied in a furious hurry at sunset.
16:28 UK time, Wednesday, 8 May 2013
The "diplomatic earthquake" heading Kenya's way: http://t.co/RIpK7yI27f–-by-richard-dowden/
19:20 UK time, Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Andrew added analysis to:
A year ago, Afgoye was under the control of Somalia's Islamist militant group, al-Shabab, which held most of the countryside beyond Mogadishu.
But if they have lost control of many key towns these days, al-Shabab can still cause trouble.
04:23 UK time, Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Somalia on the mend? The view from a farming town outside Mogadishu: http://t.co/iZucZmgV72
00:04 UK time, Tuesday, 7 May 2013
It's a bumpy half hour's drive inland from Mogadishu - with its furious traffic, its ruins, and its vast camps of displaced families - to the sleepy farming town of Afgoye.
After the dust and frenzy of the capital, Afgoye is almost shockingly green, surrounded by lush, well-irrigated fields. Trucks piled high with bananas rattle past us.
18:55 UK time, Sunday, 5 May 2013
Hours after suicide attack, K4 roundabout in Mogadishu is almost back to normal. Bodies removed, wreckage scraped from dusty street.
10:23 UK time, Sunday, 5 May 2013
Just arrived in Mogadishu, Somalia, as another suicide bomb attack shakes the city: http://t.co/TT4L6aYNSi
10:56 UK time, Friday, 19 April 2013
Akpeteshie cocktail anyone? West Africa's homegrown food revolution: http://t.co/vdqN9vYUNP
07:39 UK time, Thursday, 18 April 2013
Another fierce salvo in the war of words between Mandela's daughter and one of his oldest friends: http://t.co/3tWtSCO4jx
07:02 UK time, Thursday, 18 April 2013
Elopement returns to Somalia: http://t.co/42xjVfmJae
06:50 UK time, Thursday, 18 April 2013
Africa's richest man and a different plan for fighting poverty: http://t.co/DTYajXS3yO
13:49 UK time, Monday, 15 April 2013
Did Margaret Thatcher know about the "Wonga Coup" in Equatorial Guinea? http://t.co/scOZtOcuZk
11:06 UK time, Monday, 15 April 2013
Speaking of the ugly battle over Mandela's money - did you catch these angry comments from his grandson Mandla? http://t.co/5F9T1E4jze
11:05 UK time, Monday, 15 April 2013
#Mandela lawyer George Bizos tells me that new allegations of misconduct he's made against M's daughter are true: http://t.co/ps88dNRwoM
19:37 UK time, Sunday, 14 April 2013
My blog on the Malawi/Madonna storm in tea cup: http://t.co/F28hHPV6k5
Africa correspondent since 2009, covering the continent's highs and lows - from the World Cup, Africa's economic boom, and the literary treasures of Timbuktu, to the pirates of Somalia, the conflict in Ivory Coast, and the struggles of Zimbabwe.
Twenty years as a foreign correspondent, based in the former Soviet Union, Africa, and Asia.
Reported on the 1993 parliamentary rebellion in Moscow, two Chechen wars, the Asian tsunami in 2004, and conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Burma, Congo, Sudan, Liberia and beyond.
Born in the UK, grew up in Belgium and boarding school. Married with three children.
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