Articles tagged Rwanda:
Rwanda: The Shaming of Donald Steinberg
- 24 Feb 2009
I was going to write this blogpost last night, but I was so angry I decided it was best to sleep on it. Bad decision. I'm still fizzing with anger. Yesterday evening I was invited by TIME Magazine's excellent London Bureau Chief Catherine Mayer to attend a screening of an impo...
My Rwanda Diary
- 29 Jul 2007
DAY ONE I've just finished packing for my trip to Rwanda. We leave at 8pm tonight from Heathrow for an overnight flight to Nairobi and then an onward flight to Kigali. I'm going to Rwanda to make three films for 18 Doughty Street - one on the genocide, one on life in Rwa...
EDP Column: My Rwandan Diary
- 27 Jul 2007
Over the last seven days I have had the experience of a lifetime. I’ve been in Rwanda making three films about the Rwandan genocide, life in Rwanda today and the 44 Conservative MPs and activists who have been spending two weeks on VSO backed social action projects. ...
Telegraph Column: Cameron Should Go to Rwanda
- 19 Jul 2007
Sometimes I wonder why I ever wanted to go into politics. Even as a parliamentary candidate, as part of the poor bloody infantry, everything you do is scrutinised through the cynical prism of a sceptical media. Every time you attend a community meeting or visit a school the cy...
EDP Diary: Up for an Award
- 18 Jul 2007
As you read this column, think of me as I spend a week in Rwanda along with forty assorted Tory MPs, candidates and volunteers. They have each forked out the best part of £1,000 to spend a fortnight on a VSO backed scheme to do good works in a country still ravaged by the afte...