AFRICA
March 2010
‘The fighting in Somalia can no longer be dismissed as an obscure domestic struggle in an unimportant country of no wider relevance to the world. The crackle of machinegun fire in Mogadishu, the regular thwump of mortars, the ground-shaking shelling by Amisom tanks and the sporadic suicide attacks by delusional youths represent the frontline in the international fight against al-Qaeda.’
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November 2009
The South African judge's Gaza report is just another example of his intensely political attitude to the law
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September 2009
Health care reform is one of the hardest things in politics. If Obama may be heading for defeat or a bloody draw, this is nothing compared to what awaits the ANC as it attempts to force through its National Health Insurance scheme.
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July/August 2009
‘Russians think about blacks, Jews and women in the way Europeans did a generation ago’
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