Making the Case for Overseas Aid
Last week, Ian Birrell wrote a piece in the Daily Mail supposedly busting the 10 “myths” that he claims are used to justify the UK’s outstanding commitment to help the world’s poorest people. I...
View ArticleFamine in Somalia: Never again, again
This blog post originally appeared on AfricanArguments.org It’s over a month since famine was declared in Somalia and alarm bells clearly rung about serious food shortages across Northern Kenya and...
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Budge up Bono and Bob – Bill’s the Big New Activist for This G20
This blog originally appeared on the Huffington Post. While Bono and Bob Geldof have long been banging away, pressing world leaders for progress to help the poorest with debt cancellation, more money...
View ArticleTransparency will help the aid debate grow up, and help aid grow old and die
A life and death debate will rage this week over the crucial – but excruciatingly technical – issue of aid effectiveness. This issue is too important for the public not to know what’s at stake, because...
View ArticleLet’s Celebrate to Accelerate
Ten years ago today, at a small press conference in New York, Bono and Bill Gates launched an activist entity called DATA, with start-up funds from Mr Gates, George Soros and Ed Scott. I was one of the...
View Article‘The path to sustainability and self-sufficiency’: Cameron hosts conference...
Today the global spotlight is once again on Somalia as Prime Minister David Cameron hosts what is being called the “London Somalia Conference”. It is over six months since famine was declared in...
View ArticleAn idea worth spreading –“what the world wants”, what do you think?
Last month I was invited to speak at TED Global in Edinburgh. TED is an organisation devoted to ideas worth spreading. So I wanted to share with you my talk and an idea we’re working on with partners...
View ArticleThe voices I want to hear
I started this year travelling across Africa with Bono visiting places we hadn’t been for nearly a decade. One of these was northern Ghana. Ghana is often held up as a success story of development....
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Committing to natural resource transparency in Africa pays
How can Chinese investments and aid for Africa be leveraged to help more kids can get vaccinated, make anti-malarial bed nets more available, achieve food security for families and ensure that more...
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Can Africa keep its promise to its people?
Erik Charas. Photo World Economic Forum / Matthew Jordaan matthew.jordaan@inl.co.za Erik Charas is a campaigning journalist in Mozambique. He was recently arrested by local officials for asking...
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