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Keeping the Twit in Twitter. Motorcycle columnist for the Daily Mirror, editor of Microlight Flying magazine and best selling author Geoff Hill has over 1798 followers on Twitter.
China dominant in Djibouti port spat
There are only two sea routes linking Europe with East Africa and much of Asia. Either you sail around the Cape of Good Hope or through the Suez Canal
Africa braces for high-stakes Davos meet
Trump will be the star at Davos. Love or hate him, he’s likely to be the only head of state whose speech will be broadcast on all the news channels
Washington seeks out like minds on climate change
Washington has spent the week seeking out like minds at a climate-change conference that ended last night in Germany.
Where to begin: Trump, the Paris Agreement and Africa’s poverty
Countries like the USA are expected to cut emissions now, while China can go on polluting until 2030, then trim its footprint
Wintertime and the livin’ is easy
Britain, Europe and the US are snuggling up to their carbon-emitting coal fires
Curbing ‘big men’ may stem exodus
One of the reasons for Francophone Africa’s mass migration to France is leaders who refuse to go.
There’s a crisis in our oceans, illegal fishing dwarfs ivory and rhino horn poaching
France, SA and Mozambique will give trawlers in the Mozambique Channel a harder time, but can they control the $23bn a year industry?
Buhari under siege on all fronts, only a year into his presidency
Economic woes and new calls for Biafran independence may signal the start of trouble in the country.
Nigeria’s president is beset by a civil war threat, a terror group and an economic crisis
The West is riding on the hope that the Nigerian leader will defeat Boko Haram and end corruption.
After Ebola, US spreads its bets over Africa
The superpower may expand its bootprint across the continent but it was the Ebola outbreak that sparked this latest move in its ‘war on terror’.
The double standards of African diplomacy
While the West and other observers are quick to condemn Robert Mugabe, they just as easily ignore the egregious abuses of power elsewhere.
Allies silent on Djibouti human rights abuses
Western nations won’t intervene lest they upset a strategic partnership or usher in another despot.
Success in a rough neighbourhood
”If I sound like an Afro-pessimist, nothing could be more wrong. There are countries that serve as examples of what can be achieved in a new Zimbabwe,” writes Geoff Hill. ”Can…