Sir – Mike Pflanz’s report (29 December 2005) on northern Uganda sheds a welcome light on one of Africa’s many forgotten conflicts. For nearly 20 years, the Lord’s Resistance Army of Joseph Kony has reigned with an iron fist of terror, forcing...
As national borders blur, the Continent’s original minorities are fighting to reclaim their ancient cultures and identities BY JAMES GEARY When John Angarrack accompanied his two young sons on a school trip to a local history exhibit in their hometown of Bodmin,...
Sir – Monday’s peace deal between the government in Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement stands in stark contrast to developments in Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, the assassination of the foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, calls into doubt the possibility...
International Herald Tribune THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2005 Stefan Wolff, University of Bath, England, UK There is a genuine confusion among different groups of Europeans about what it is they really want the European Union to be. They feel European – but Europe and...
By Graham Bowley International Herald Tribune SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2005 LONDON. More than 50 million dead. A continent where, in the words of Winston Churchill, “a vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, care-worn and bewildered human beings gape at the ruins of...
By Katrin Bennhold, International Herald Tribune TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2005 Jorgo Riss was born and raised in Germany: He has a weakness for bratwurst and a thoroughly Germanic seriousness about issues like solar power. But he also has an Italian casualness about...
