As Christmas rolls around once more, the BandAid hit Do They Know It’s Christmas? has been playing on Rafiq Copeland’s mind in Kenya. In good and bad ways.
Horn of africa
The survivors, and the cameras, flood famine-hit Dadaab
Survivors of devastating famine in the Horn of Africa are pouring into the Dadaab refugee camp. Journalists are coming, too, to give aid efforts much-needed publicity. Rafiq Copeland reports from the epicentre of relief.
Another famine? Rains down in Africa not blessing Ethiopia
Aid agencies fear that another famine may be looming in Ethiopia, due to a severe food crisis and drought. But declaring a famine is a political decision, with the Ethiopian prime minister denying that one is imminent.
Kevin Andrews and Africans: in his own words
We know he’s no racist, we have his own word on that, but what does Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews really think about African refugees? Crikey intern Alice Gage investigates.
