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World Affairs: Africa

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A long record of torture

Human Rights Watch's Gerry Simpson explains the plight of Zimbabweans in South Africa many of whom were dislodged from their homes by Mugabe years ago

In africa

How a continent missed its moment

  • By Michela Wrong
  • 03 July

Mbeki's grand project has been sabotaged by his inability to view events on the continent outside a narrow racial prism

Henley. More Panama hats per capita...

  • By Paul Evans
  • 27 June

Strange revelations about an Oxfordshire town. Plus David Icke's political ambitions and Morgan Tsvangirai's wisdom

Banning Khat

  • By Hugh Barnes
  • 26 June

An overdue reform of drugs policy or another draconian attack on our civil liberties? Hugh Barnes reflects on the Tory proposal

Fabricate that fear

  • By John Pilger
  • 26 June

Those snatched from their homes in Britain following 11 September 2001 have all but vanished into an Anglo-American gulag

Troubled borders

  • By Michela Wrong
  • 19 June

Observations on Africa

Power v poverty

  • By Duncan Green
  • 19 June

Privatisation, free trade and market forces . . . the rich world insists poor states play by our rules. But they don't work. Time to let countries determine their own destinies?

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Catholicism and Mugabe

Catholicism and Mugabe

Progressio's Steve Kibble on the complex relationship between Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe's churches. Plus Human Right Watch's Gerry Simpson on the long time torturer

More in africa

Mincing with Mugabe

  • By George Walden
  • 12 June 2008

Zimbabwe: The end game

  • By Mark Ashurst and Gugulethu Moyo
  • 12 June 2008

Is Tsvangirai a leader?

  • By William Gumede
  • 12 June 2008

War on his people

  • By Dumisani Muleya
  • 12 June 2008

Time to confront Mugabe

  • By Peter Hain
  • 12 June 2008

Tutu: the true spirit of South Africa

  • By Rageh Omaar
  • 05 June 2008

Lessons from a beleaguered continent

  • By Michela Wrong
  • 29 May 2008

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