When Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki signed a peace deal on 27 February, ending Kenya’s post-election violence, people took to the streets to celebrate. The agreement, hammered out by Kofi Annan after weeks of political wrangling, paved the way for a grand coalition government. It was a breakthrough in a part of the world [...]

South Africa’s “mother city” of Cape Town is renowned as the country’s most beautiful for tourists, but there’s no escaping the destruction of apartheid when you visit. On your way from the airport to the city’s seafront accommodation, you can see a huge ugly scar against the lower slopes of the famed Table Mountain. The [...]