Adrift, divided, and indebted
26 May 1995
General Sani Abacha has promised to put his country back on the path of economic reform and held our the prospect of a return to civilian rule. But the army's record of broken promises has all but destroyed its credibility, writes Michael Holman, Africa Editor.
Africa is striving for a fresh start
1 September 1993
Four years after the Wold Bank's seminal 1989 report, the continent's crisis is deepening and more children are dying, says Michael Holman.
A calamity contained but not resolved
19 October 1985
Bob Geldof, the Irish pop singer, who has come to personify a fresh approach to aid – a generous man-in-the-street response to disaster couppled with an impatience over red tape – arrives in Ethiopia today.
Brush, brush, brush, yet the dust remains
27 May 1995
Michael Holman discovers some purpose in an old woman;s seemingly futile, mindane and monotonous activity.