It is always easy to snipe at a state leader’s foreign tour, and Barack Obama’s trip to Africa was no exception. He was criticised for visiting a Kenyan president who only recently – and questionably – evaded the International Criminal Court for inciting political violence, then was condemned for claiming a despotic regime in Ethiopia […]
It is still less than one month since that astonishing election result, but already the idea of Ed Miliband as prime minister seems more like some kind of weird fantasy than a potential reality threatening the nation. Yet there is something rather unseemly about the speed and vigour with which those fighting for leadership of […]
The message to his country is simple: ‘Don’t expect miracles.’ These are wise words from Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s septuagenarian new leader surveys his immense domain. For having won power, the former general presides over a nation – the most populous in Africa – that is beset with problems from Islamic militancy in the north through […]
