Drought in Horn of Africa - does the world still care?

Humanitarian disaster in slow motion threatens nearly 10 million people:

Clean water and food is needed, boreholes have to be dug to find deeper wells and cattle saved where possible. But on top of that, central feeding centres with medical supplies need to be established - all on the double,

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Notes of a boat ride on a vessel of many names

One of my earliest memories is of boats in Tangalle. I can’t remember what the vantage point was. I think this was in 1971, on a family trip to Kataragama and Yala. Extended family, I should add. There were adults everywhere I looked; my brother, sister and I were the little people.

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The BBC’s unforced, unacknowledged errors

The faults of the BBC are those of any other media outlet - and perhaps all humanity - a tendency to dramatize and exaggerate, to concentrate on what makes the points it wants to highlight and ignore the opposite,

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